> Weird gatekeeping but ok; COVID causes chronic fatigue syndrome in some people. Because so many were affected (millions worldwide), it got its own nickname. M

> Weird gatekeeping but ok; COVID causes chronic fatigue syndrome in some people. Because so many were affected (millions worldwide), it got its own nickname. ME/CFS developed after a covid infection. ME/CFS has been around for way longer - prior to Covid, the Epstein-Barr virus was strongly suspected to be a trigger for it. Unfortunately ME/CFS was (and in many cases still isn't) widely known among doctors, so diagnoses were hard to come by and treatment even harder. At least now that there is money flowing into ME/CFS research and knowledge about it gets more widespread, "old time" ME/CFS sufferers have a perspective now...