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https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/long-covid-patients-need-scientific-ambition-not-defeatism>
"Long before 2020, governments and public health experts spent decades
preparing for a pandemic along the lines of COVID-19. However, these models
failed to anticipate that the virus would not only kill millions, but also
trigger a wave of debilitating and disabling chronic illness, now known as Long
COVID. Upwards of seven million Americans – including the four authors of this
article – have fallen victim to this shadow pandemic, with half a million
forced out of work.
Scientific efforts to understand Long COVID are still in their infancy. And yet
some have proposed that biological investigations of Long COVID should be
abandoned. Fifty years of research into a seemingly identical post-viral
condition – myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) – have
yielded little, so why would Long COVID be any different?
This argument draws all the wrong lessons from the decades-long neglect of
ME/CFS. Rather than give up, we must seize the grim opportunity Long COVID has
presented us to finally untangle the biology behind the devastating chronic
illnesses that infections can trigger."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: February 15, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-98518046
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
