Suffering in Silence: Long Covid and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

A guest post by Michael A. Osborne, Professor of Machine Learning at Oxford's Department of Engineering Science about neglect of the connection between the 2 conditions by the medical community

Acting Associate Editor AM Arshee

As the medical community continues to overlook a debilitating condition with over 200 evidenced symptoms, the pressing question remains of what will it take for Long COVID to receive the due attention, research funding, and policy impact required for adequate patient care?

The following article was written by Mike Osborne - an accomplished Professor of Machine Learning at the Department of Engineering Science of Oxford University, who has secured over £10.6M of research funding and co-founded the emerging field of probabilistic numerics. His work on the societal impacts of machine learning and robotics has been widely recognised, with citations over 10,000 times, and has had a significant policy impact, including presenting evidence to the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.

When I got Long Covid, I was 38 and healthy. If you are anything like I was then, it is hard to understand how bad Long Covid is. I think that we all have an insti…