UK Times article on how the focus Long COVID is bringing to post-viral fatigue conditions could transform the lives of all those living with them. Read more
Emerge Australia is pleased to have launched the latest element of our awareness campaign with a full-page advert in the Australian Financial Review to give ME/CFS a voice in the national Long COVID conversation. Read more
In early 2020, Alison Sbrana watched the coronavirus skip from China across continents with a sense of impending doom. Read more
The first principle of helping patients manage Long COVID, and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), should be to “do no harm”. Patients and healthcare workers have tried to speed up recovery from Long COVID with exercise-based rehabilitation. Read more
That’s how President Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor, Dr Anthony Fauci, has described myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Long COVID: similar debilitating fatigue; similar biology and neurology, similar urgent need for better diagnosis and treatment.
Emerge Australia is a national organisation providing education, advocacy, research and support services for Australians living with ME/CFS. With the medical and media spotlight currently on Long COVID is finally bringing ME/CFS out of the shadows and highlighting how proper funding and new research is decades overdue.
Emerge Australia is determined to seize this moment to help transform the lives of the estimated 250,000 Australians living with ME/CFS and other post-viral fatigue conditions. Please support our campaign by reading the articles below and sharing them with your networks. And if you possibly can, please make a donation to help people with a disease strikingly similar to Long COVID, expect hardly anyone has heard of it.
This editorial draws together findings from several articles in the journal’s special issue about ME/CFS. As the title of the article suggests, the authors argue we are currently “turning a corner” in ME/CFS research. Read more
The overlap is even greater than we thought. Global literature review reveals 25 of 29 ME/CFS symptoms are shared by those with Long COVID. Read more
It's called Long COVID, often Long-haul COVID and sometimes Post Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC). Last week the World Health Organisation announced a definition for what it calls "post COVID-19 condition", affecting people at least two months after a COVID-19 infection with symptoms that “cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis”. Read more
Up to an estimated 20% of people who survive COVID-19 will have persistent symptoms with no obvious organ damage. This is also known as post-COVID-19 syndrome, or Long COVID. The symptoms of Long COVID overlap with those of other post-infectious conditions like ME/CFS. Read more
This paper identifies similar biological changes in people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and acute COVID-19. The authors suggest that these changes may lead to what has become known as Long COVID, which also shares similarities with ME/CFS. Read more