In the same place where the urgency to treat every other chronic illness: Nowhere. As a society we're so used to treating efficacy as a virtue that we view mo

In the same place where the urgency to treat every other chronic illness: Nowhere. As a society we're so used to treating efficacy as a virtue that we view most fatigue-related disability as a psychological and moral failure of the person, and its care fully reflects this. This is not unique to long COVID. It's time to face the fact that healthcare is deeply broken. It's great at reducing symptom burden with meds, and solving physically obvious issues with surgery, but completely incurious and helpless to remedy the causes of chronic illness, often even when science identifying them has existed for decades (such as sleep disordered breathing(apnea and UARS), at their root caused by underdeveloped jaws). I know many chronically ill people. The standard is for them to spend years, even decades being treated dismissively and sent to the psychologists for "depression" before they even receive a diagnosis, and then for nothing, or too little, to be done to treat it.