Comment by randerson

When you have millions of formerly healthy, active people reporting the same thing, unable to get out of bed for more than a few hours a day, unable to do complicated tasks or do the things they enjoyed, something is clearly going on.

I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome after getting Epstein-Barr virus as a teen. I was told by many doctors that it was not a real illness and it was all in my head. I tried to make myself believe that, and eventually convinced myself that I was indeed crazy. It took about a decade to recover enough that I can live life, but I still get exhausted easily. And during that time CFS became more widely accepted as a real illness.

Now doctors are saying there is a lot of similarity between CFS and Long COVID