New opinion piece by 3 prominent researchers about Long Covid and ME/CFS research. (They use the term “IACC” as the catch-all for “infection-associated chronic conditions,” i.e. long covid and ME/CFS, chronic Lyme. Etc.)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.ado2101

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For this reason, the best scientific strategy for defining the mechanism of each IACC may be to conduct prospective clinical trials in which well-understood interventions in highly characterized participants are used to disrupt specific pathways of interest. We hence advocate for the financing of an experimental medicine agenda that is designed both to uncover mechanisms and identify potential interventions that might prove to be curative in Long Covid, ME/CFS, chronic Lyme disease, and other IACCs. For ME/CFS, the NIH has recently sponsored production of a roadmap to guide research that will help identify promising interventions to be tested in clinical trials

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