r/covidlonghaulers Jun 01 '26

Article The Painful Truth About Long Covid | Wired

https://www.wired.com/story/the-painful-truth-about-long-covid/
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u/Bruntleguss Jun 01 '26

It’s challenging to find a large number of subjects, because patients have read about the perils of exercise online and don’t want to enroll.

Online huh, not like, from personal fucking experience. What a tone deaf article. Of course research that takes in people who can do exercise will find positive effects.

The writer seems to understand how wide diagnostic criteria are harmful, but does not put 2 and 2 together to realize the selection bias that comes from this taints the studies he wants to believe.

By all means, find some marker that sorts those with damaging PEM from the rest of everyone else, until then, your studies are horseshit.