A new post on The Schor Line, an NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) blog, was just published about the long-term effects of COVID-19. In the blog post, Nina Schor, M.D., Ph.D. discusses how COVID-19 patients who are critically ill are likely to take months or even years to fully recover, and how even some people who experience milder symptoms are experiencing a longer-term recovery process. Called post-acute COVID syndrome (PACS), she likens the symptoms experienced by people with PACS to those of people with ME/CFS, drawing a parallel between the two. This is very important, as many in the ME/CFS community have been concerned that post-COVID syndrome will overshadow ME/CFS when the overlap between the two is so clear.

NINDS has recently appropriated $1.15 billion in support of understanding the recovery process after COVID-19 and in developing treatments for people with PACS. Schor says that, “through these studies, we hope to identify new targets for therapies and preventive measures and to soon welcome a future in which no one must live with ME/CFS or PACS.”

To read The Schor Line post, click here.