[PaulKeeble]

People have already started appearing in various chronic illness forums around the world with what sounds very much like ME/CFS after having caught Sars2. The official diagnosis takes at least 6 months of having the symptoms and its notoriously badly diagnosed throughout the world due to the incredibly flawed PACE study that painted it as a physchological disease.

Doctors need to be quickly educated on the known blood bio marker combination (igG, lymocytes 2% and antibody complexes all abnormal) until the Stanford nano needle salt stress test is developed and released. They need to ensure patients are put onto a pacing regime which will slow the rate at which they get worse.

Many epidemics have caused ME/CFS "outbreaks" and it has no treatment and almost no research has even been done. 5% of people recover but some also die, most are broken for life. Doctors often think its diabetes as it presents with similar systemic issues but the insulin tests usually come up fine. Its critical they do immune system and full thyroid tests and get the diagnosis and the treatment correct early as each over exertion will permenantly degrade their patients energy levels.

[peteyPete]

Only upside to this is the amount of noise being generated and new funding being allocated to increase research and find a cure or treatment. Hopefully new testing can be developed, doctors can be educated so they can treat patients instead of doubting them or saying its all in their heads, governments can acknowledge people who are affected and actually support them instead of letting them wither away, out of sight, out of mind.

[scruple]

Can the asymptomatic who never present symptoms, or those whose symptoms don't land them in a testing facility / hospital, also develop these chronic illnesses? Is that known?

[PaulKeeble]

About 80% of ME/CFS patients know the day they caught the virus that caused their ME/CFS, but the other 20% don't. Whether that is because 20% of sufferers have a completely different trigger circumstance or because they were asymptomatic is unknown, like I said there has been almost no research in 70 years since the first outbreak was classed as mass hysteria and its been ignored and patients abused ever since until the last 2 years when research finally started to trickle in and get funded.

[erichocean]

> Can the asymptomatic who never present symptoms, or whose symptoms don't land them in a testing facility / hospital, also develop chronic illnesses? Is that known?

The evidence so far is "yes", unfortunately.