A glimmer of hope for people living with chronic fatigue syndrome UdeM’s Alain Moreau is working to shed light on the mystery of myalgic encephalomyelitis, a debilitating disease that is receiving renewed attention in the wake of COVID-19.

University of Montreal: A glimmer of hope for people living with chronic fatigue syndrome

“ME remains difficult to define, but recent advances are gradually changing the landscape,” Moreau said. “With the rise of long COVID..is now a scientific priority..'

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Image of child in classroom in Africa.

New study: Children who survive severe malaria may face long-term cognitive impairment and decreased academic achievement for years after infection.

Read more on the study: ow.ly/X5XP50YNveg

- And numbers continue to swell as the Covid virus continues to circulate globally.

ID: An image shows a selfie of Mustafa Talat, a Pakistani doctor, in personal protective equipment including a high quality mask and hooded coverall suit. He also wears stylish wire framed glasses. The image is repeated three times - two of them have a light blue filter. The text reads, “The Sick Times. I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me. By Mustafa Talat.”

We’re here, we’re still practicing, and we deserve better than silence and self-management. Medicine asked for our bodies. It’s time medicine made space for what became of them.

Mustafa Talat developed #LongCOVID after working the first COVID-19 wave in a hospital in 2020. Without clear diagnostic criteria, he received no diagnosis despite limiting symptoms. The system that trained him to diagnose couldn’t acknowledge what had happened. bit.ly/4vFu9Yz

Over store deler av den vestlige verden skjer det samme: Elever slutter å gå på skolen. Sverige holdt skolene åpne under pandemien. Likevel stiger fraværet. Utdanningsminister Simona Mohamsson kaller situasjonen for «en stor fiasko».

Front page news today in Norway that more and more children are missing school since the pandemic started. Even in Sweden which never had lockdowns and where schools never closed.

Such a mystery..

No mention of #LongCovid of course.

www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/M7A7...

Our latest News in Brief summary has headlines and links to further reading about ME/CFS, Long Covid, and related news for the week of Apr. 13 - 19:

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#MEcfs #LongCovid

- ...although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives.

(+) Reagerer på nye retningslinjer for langvarig utmattelse: – En egen retningslinje kun for ME, er et absolutt krav Pasienter med ME/CFS og long covid mener Helsedirektoratets utkast til nye retningslinjer bærer mer preg av politikk enn kunnskap, blant annet ved å omtale samtaleterapi og gradert trening som behandl...

Helsedirektoratets utkast til ny retningslinje er et makkverk.
Vi er tre i målgruppen som uavhengig av hverandre fremmer samme kritikk;

psykologisk.no/2026/04/reag...

I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me. - The Sick Times I was three hours into my internal medicine ward call when the brain fog descended like a curtain dropping mid-performance.

- If medicine can’t retain healthcare workers disabled by the virus, what does that say about our commitment to those whom we serve?

thesicktimes.org/2026/04/17/i...

But still no effort to protect the children against the infection..

- “COVID-19 and the flu are here with us all the time,” Davidson warned. “They weren’t just a blip that has gone away.”

That's right. Inflammation is the big miss for getting ahead of coronary artery disease
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My review of this big shift
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Pandemic Stress and Grief I figured out a way today to describe what the pandemic is like from my perspective. It’s a slow-motion mass casualty incident. To explain why this framing feels so accurate to me, I need to …

How the pandemic feels from my perspective.

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The next leap forward: Clean air for Canadians “Weak productivity is making life less affordable for Canadians and beginning to strain our government’s finances and starting to put at risk the social programs on which Canadians rely,” Prime Minist...

Any push to increase school attendance has to deal with the fact that schools are where sickness spreads - and it doesn't stay there. Forcing sick kids to go anyway will make that even worse.

If they're serious, start by cleaning the air. Attendance and learning will improve as kids get healthier.

- The report says that overall management of long COVID has been hindered, “First by a lack of recognition of its existence by the medical community, and subsequently by underestimation of its prevalence and impact across all sectors of society.”

Out of focus image of hospitalized patient. Patient is laying down looking in the distance. The camera is focused on the patient's hands, folded on top of their torso.

According to a new study, RSV is associated with high rates of complications and death among older adults hospitalized with the condition, and older RSV patients may have worse health outcomes than older adults hospitalized for influenza.

Read more: ow.ly/Cf9E50YIpwo

How is long COVID impacting the EU’s economy? Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, its economic impact lingers, with long COVID disrupting the employment of around one in five workers. #EuropeInMotion

Euro News: 'Long COVID could cost up to €115.3bn per year over the next decade, study shows'

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, its economic impact lingers, with long COVID disrupting the employment of around one in five workers.

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Long COVID May Increase Your Heart Disease Risk Individuals with long COVID face a substantially higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease — particularly cardiac arrhythmias and coronary artery disease — than those without long COVID.

Medscape: 'Long COVID May Increase Your Heart Disease Risk'

'Overall, 8999 individuals in the study cohort were diagnosed with long COVID'

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Australian government: Department of Health, disability and ageing logo Home News and media $23 million for research into Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 Apply for the latest Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grant opportunity. ListenPrintShare Date published: 13 April 2026 Audience: General public

Great news from Australia

$23 million for research into Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19

www.health.gov.au/news/mrff-23...

Includes
"compare the underlying causes of PASC with illnesses that happen after a viral infection, #MECFS, POTS & fibromyalgia. These will be small-scale projects"
#LongCovid

Our latest News in Brief summary has headlines and links to further reading about ME/CFS, Long Covid, and related news for the week of Apr. 6 - 12:

Topics:
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Research news & commentary
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#MEcfs #LongCovid

A person looking happy Headline: Who Could Have Imagined That Not Getting Sick Briefly In 2020 Would Leave So Many People So Sick In 2026 Story by Clive Winterbourne and Philwith Nameidea Photo from Unsplash

Who Could Have Imagined That Not Getting Sick Briefly In 2020 Would Leave So Many People So Sick In 2026

Someone in bed Headline Health Officials Pleasantly Surprised By Public’s Willingness To Run With ‘Menopause Flu’ Narrative Story by Peter Kemp and Polly Esther-Blanket Photo by Adobe

Health Officials Pleasantly Surprised By Public’s Willingness To Run With ‘Menopause Flu’ Narrative

- Long COVID is increasingly recognized as a significant public health concern, affecting an estimated 10% to 30% of people.

High blood pressure plus COVID carries higher long-term heart risk than previously understood. A new study followed 75,000+ hypertensive patients for 4+ years and found elevated rates of heart attack, stroke, and death compared to those who never had COVID. #COVID

Yes, RSV too. I wish we would do more to reduce the level of these infections, particularly in health care.

Should we be doing more for sufferers of Long Covid? It might feel like the days of Covid are well behind most of us, but six years on from the initial outbreak, around 200 thousand New Zealanders are still dealing with it because they have Long Covid. So should more be done for those suffering the symptoms? We discuss that with Amanda Kvalsvig, Research Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Otago. But first Jesse talks to Esther, a Wellington-based freelance journalist who can share what it's like to have Long Covid.

RNZ: "Should we be doing more for sufferers of Long Covid?"

'It might feel like the days of Covid are well behind most of us, but six years on from the initial outbreak, around 200 thousand New Zealanders are still dealing with it because they have Long Covid. '

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

"No one should be taking medical advice from some dude who looks like an overly frizzy John Oates."

Eye symptoms may signal higher-severity long COVID

CIDRAP: "Eye symptoms may signal higher-severity long COVID"

'..researchers led by a team at Yale School of Medicine analyzed survey data from 595 adults who self-reported having long COVID in surveys conducted from May 2022 to October 2023'

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/eye...

Picture of text from the report with an estimation of costs for OECD countries of USD 135 billion per annum over the next decade.

Published today by OECD: Addressing the Costs and Care for Long COVID - The Long Shadow of the Pandemic

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Long Covid projected to cost OECD economies up to $135bn a year New research forecasts hit to GDP from lower productivity and workers quitting because of long-term illness

Financial Times: 'Long Covid projected to cost OECD economies up to $135bn a year'

'New research forecasts hit to GDP from lower productivity and workers quitting because of long-term illness'

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