Yeah a relative of mine had it decades before Covid.
A better term may be "Long Virus" since multiple viruses can trigger it, Covid just happens to be the most recent pandemic.
A better term may be "Long Virus" since multiple viruses can trigger it, Covid just happens to be the most recent pandemic.
The results would potentially scale to some sunset of ME/CFS suffers neho never had Covid, but it makes sense to start with the group we at least have a common starting point on the cause.
Some long covid symptoms are nothing like ME/CFS such as a persistant loss of taste and smell. And there are people with ME/CFS who never had covid.
Anyways, I am sure that research goes both way, that is, studying the consequences of covid and the causes of ME/CFS. "meet in the middle" can be a good exploration strategy.