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AGOURA HILLS, Calif., April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) is leading a large-scale international collaborative study investigating the potential conversion of Post-Acute Sequelae SARS-CoV-2 infection more commonly known as Long COVID or Post-COVID Syndrome to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), a chronic, life-altering disease with no known cause, diagnostic test or FDA approved treatments available.
Up to 2.5 million people in the U.S. alone suffer from ME/CFS; the COVID-19 pandemic could at least double that number. An estimated 35 percent of Americans who had COVID-19 have failed to fully recover several months after infection, prompting many to call it a potential second pandemic.
TOUCHED BY LYME: Read excerpt of “Chronic,” long-awaited book by Phillips and Parish
Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Healthy Again is a long-awaited book by Dr. Steven Phillips and Dana Parish.
The co-authors–a prominent Lyme doctor and a singer/songwriter/advocate who used to be his patient–are well known in the Lyme community. So, it’s initially curious that the book title doesn’t mention the words “Lyme disease.”
But that’s explained early on. In their text, Phillips and Parish use the term “Lyme plus” for the dizzying constellation of microbes that can result in a wide variety of persistent symptoms and autoimmune conditions. Lyme disease (by itself) may be only one part of the complex picture.