David Tuller
Trial By Error: A Stupid Study of Exercise for Long Covid Patients With Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Medical Virology has just published a study called “Effect of using a structured pacing protocol on post-exertional symptom exacerbation and health status in a longitudinal cohort with the post-COVID-19 syndrome.” The investigators are from the University of Leeds and the Leeds Community Healthcare ...
Trial By Error: Is the Long Covid Phenomenon an Expression of “Psychosocial Distress”?
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH For the second time in a few weeks, a major US news organization has provided Professor Michael Sharpe, lead PACE investigator and one-time Virology Blog commenter, with a high-profile platform to disseminate his typical blather and nonsense. Both articles—the first in New York Magazine, the second ...
Trial By Error: Top Lightning Process Proponent Privately Lobbied for Approval of Norway’s LP Study
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH *Two corrections had been made in the text below. The NEM committee has 12 members, not nine, as I originally wrote. And when Dr Flottorp wrote her letter, it was not while the NEM committee was considering the proposed Lightning Process trial, as I originally wrote, ...
Trial By Error: Recent Articles in The Guardian, CNBC and Popular Science
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH As part of an ongoing project on long Covid, The Guardian recently published a powerful excerpt from a book called “What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma.” The author, Mike Mariani, is an American journalist who a decade ago found ...
Trial By Error: The Long COVID Survival Guide and the Role of Patients in Research
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH"The Long COVID Survival Guide: How to Take Care of Yourself and What Comes Next—Stories and Advice from Twenty Long-Haulers and Experts" is pretty much what it sounds like. The anthology was published earlier this month, and each chapter is written by one or more contributors. The ...
