What happens once you recover from COVID-19? Are you better straight away? Maybe… but maybe not.

Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS) can be a debilitating illness and there is a growing amount of evidence that this novel coronavirus may be responsible for it, even after only mild symptoms during the initial infection.

0:25 What’s Going On?
1:48 What is Post Viral Fatigue?
4:31 Covid-19 PVFS Symptoms
6:16 Treatment?
7:30 Prognosis

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The Long Covid Handbook (Oct 2022), by Gez Medinger and Professor Danny Altmann and published by Penguin Books is now available in paperback, ebook and audiobook. A singular resource that brings together everything patients, clinicians and academics have learnt about the condition since early 2020, as well as lessons from sufferers and researchers of ME/CFS and other chronic conditions. It offers world leading expert advice on understanding, managing and treating Long Covid. The Long Covid Handbook is available from the following links:

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https://www.hsj.co.uk/commissioning/w...

SCHOLARLY:
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Chronic (and Postviral) Fatigue Syndrome, Peters/Morrison, 2002: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...

BMJ Prospective Cohort Study on PVFS. 2006: https://www.bmj.com/content/333/7568/575

BMJ Summary on CFS. 2018: https://bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/e...

The clinical value of cytokines in chronic fatigue syndrome, Yang et al, 2019: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

COVID-19 cytokine storm, Jose/Manuel, 2020: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...

NHS Treatment CFS/ME, current: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chronic...