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Covid-19 and chronic fatigue
BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2922 (Published 30 July 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m2922
- Frances M K Williams, professor of genomic epidemiology and honorary consultant rheumatologist1,
- Nina Muirhead, dermatology surgeon2,
- Carmine Pariante, professor of biological psychiatry3
- 1King’s College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
- 2Buckinghamshire NHS Trust, Amersham, UK
- 3Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- frances.williams{at}kcl.ac.uk
Salisbury’s article on patients with prolonged symptoms of covid-19 should be distributed to all healthcare practitioners.1 Chronic fatigue is an important and distressing symptom in rheumatic2 and other diseases3 as well as in the complex multisystem disease myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).4 It is poorly covered in many medical school curriculums. At last there is …
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