
Last year, researchers in Ontario, Canada started recruiting participants for a Long COVID trial testing the feasibility of exercise and rehabilitation. Like many other studies of exercise, it doesn’t use validated measures for post-exertional malaise (PEM). But the Pursuing Reduction in Fatigue After COVID-19 via Exercise and Rehabilitation (PREFACER) study, run by researchers at Western…

While the multi-billion dollar Long COVID Moonshot bill is currently stalled, advocates learned many important lessons that the community must carry into future efforts.

A “unifying” hypothesis of the mechanisms, triggers, and risk factors for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), is gaining support. Further evaluation and development of a potential drug depend on funding.

A test for Long COVID will be transformative, and we should start preparing for its arrival now.
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