By David Tuller, DrPH In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, journalist Ed Yong played a key role in alerting the public to the wave of people suffering prolonged symptoms after an acute bout of COVID-19—the phenomenon that has come to be called long Covid. Yong, who won a ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Update: In the comments, Colleen Steckel has highlighted her concerns about the CDC prevalence data, writing: "There is some basic misinformation in the CDC survey reporting. The results need to be put into historical perspective. Repeating narratives, based on inaccurate information, are not helping people with ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Pediatrician Esther Crawley, Bristol University’s methodologically and factually challenged grant magnet, has released what seem to be the first outcome results from her much-hyped but fatally flawed FITNET-NHS trial—and they are disastrous. The trial, a pediatric study of online CBT based on similar Dutch research that ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Beth Mazur was a long-time ME advocate and a co-founder of #MEAction. ME-world was shocked to learn on Friday--two days ago--that she was gone, at the unconscionably young age of 47. At the time, she was visiting New Mexico and Julie Rehmeyer, another patient and advocate. ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Investigative journalist Betsy Ladyzhets is a co-founder of The Sick Times, a new online publication covering long Covid and related disorders. Last week, she wrote about a new grant program for long Covid clinics from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), part of ...