People w post viral fatigue arising from #Covid19 are advised to follow guidelines which are not fit for purpose & for some will result in significant worsening of their condition, causing permanent long term disability ie #ME
This document is all wrong
https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/OH-011.20-Coronavirus-and-fatigue-v2.pdf">https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/wp-conten...

NICE, @NICEComms, are reviewing guidelines re #ME because they include Graded Exercise Therapy which has been proven not to be suitable for people with #ME, an illness caused by viral infections.
Why repeat same nonsense re GET @OxfordHealthNHS?

https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/hWSxVIBTzDtqisvafkhE/full">https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/hW...

A steady increase in activity can easily cause further harm. Exercise might sound like the most benign of recommendations but the hallmark symptom of #ME is that overexertion triggers relapses that can leave patients much sicker ie PENE as per ICC
https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/25/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cdc/
https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/2... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/COVID19"> #COVID19

The CDC finally reverses course on treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome

After years of pleas from patients and experts, the CDC quietly dropped from its website two debunked recommendations for treating chronic fatigue syndrome.

https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/25/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cdc/

An important test that shows the inability to exercise that is experienced in #ME is the 2-day CPET which directly measures an individual’s capacity for work & is considered the gold standard for measuring disability in ME https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30234078/ ">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30234078/...

When AHRQ [ @AHRQNews]
excluded Oxford-based studies from its analysis on #ME it found insufficient evidence of beneficial effect for GET and barely any for CBT.’ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11606-019-05375-y">https://link.springer.com/article/1...