Worth listening to Timothy Snyder in Tallinn 🇪🇪 yesterday: We are in 1938 now. If Czechs had resisted Nazi Germany at the time, there would have been no WWII. If Ukraine gives up or we give up 🇺🇦 we will move to 1939. Ukraine helps us to extend 1938.

This is an interesting preprint about oxidative stress in ME/CFS and long covid. Waiting for peer review.

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Many people in medicine still consider PACE to be 'well conducted study published in Lancet' and that it 'proved CFS is psychosomatic'.

No. It was a huge piece of sh*t and a megascam.

'In conclusion, the associations among persistent viral RNA, immunometabolism, and patient-reported outcomes provide mechanistic insights for addressing the challenges posed by long COVID'

doi.org/10.1016/S2666-…

'Our findings suggest that residual SARS-CoV-2 can persist in patients who have recovered from mild COVID-19 and that there is a significant association between viral persistence and long COVID symptoms.'

thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

An important new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases found SARS-CoV-2 virus proteins persisting in blood in about 25% of people who had COVID up to 14 months prior. polybio.org/covid-19-virus… Comparison blood drawn pre-COVID showed only 2% assay positivity.

Very happy to share our latest research on people with ME/CFS and Long COVID from Spain (see PDF manuscript on this link …nslational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

European ME Alliance 📢Important survey of >11k #pwME from around Europe. Over 70% with severe symptoms; half report a deteriorating illness; 3/4 receive little/no health care support; diagnosis takes 7y on average; pacing is helpful; GET/CBT negatively affect illness. European ME Alliance

Article about animal models for the study of Ebola virus persistence:

doi.org/10.1371/journa…

New:
NIH Study Provides Long-Awaited Insight Into #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis / #ChronicFatigueSyndrome

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

JAMA has a huge impact factor of 120.7

Comments from Avindra Nath, Liz Burlingame, Lucinda Bateman & Hector Bonilla

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME

All this requires further investigation. The injustices done to patients with ME/CFS are compound and multiple. It's not just individual clinicians in the frame, but universities and departments, insurance companies, government and media. Great wrongs have been done.

It’s the greatest medical scandal of the 21st Century. Intransigent doctors and gullible journalists have made the lives of ME/CFS patients a living hell.
A massive and shocking story in this week’s column.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Thread. Medical Hysteria and #InternationalWomensDay

In 1882, Anna O is considered 'patient zero' for the diagnosis of 'Hysteria'

#Hysteria was originally a diagnosis only given to women

Anna O fell ill in 1880 after her father died, possibly of Tuberculosis

Delighted to share our latest work on #longCOVID - sex differences in symptoms and immune signatures. Led by Julio Silva Takehiro Takahashi, MD, PhD Jamie Wood et al. with Leying (Lexi) Guan & Putrino Lab. We find a striking inverse correlation btw testosterone levels and symptom burden👇🏼 (1/)