My sense is medicine has for some time neglected chronic symptoms from acute viral infection. During my lifetime, chronic fatigue syndrome went from a psycholog

My sense is medicine has for some time neglected chronic symptoms from acute viral infection. During my lifetime, chronic fatigue syndrome went from a psychological malady confined to malingerers and depressed women to a physical malady associated with infection... but maybe also malingerers / depressed women. Which was where things stood when I contracted mononucleosis in my 40s. Weeks / months long fatigue and multi-organ involvement is characteristic of mono. In my case as the other symptoms slowly abated the fatigue remained, lingering over six months with some intervening flare-ups of fever etc. I learned that that this progression is considerably more common in older patients. Beyond that, little was known and my doctors reacted with a shrug and symptom management. There was no know cause to these symptoms. And seemingly to me considerably less medical interest. Perhaps Covid will yield a greater focus and fundamental understanding of chronic conditions resulting from viruses. However, given the contrast between the prevalence of CFS and attention paid... and the medical reaction to Lyme Disease I’m not entirely optimistic.