Trial By Error: Anil van der Zee ’ s New Video on Living with Severe ME
By David Tuller, DrPH *This is a crowdfunding month for Trial By Error. Donations (tax-deductible to US tax-payers) go to the University of Calinfornia, Berkeley, to support the project. The link to the crowdfunding campaign is here: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/42302 ********** Anil van der Zee and I first connected in 2016, when he invited me to Amsterdam to … Trial By Error: Anil van der Zee’s New Video on Living with Severe ME Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 14, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized anil van der zee video Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Time ’ s Health100 List Includes Leaders in Long Covid and ME/CFS
By David Tuller, DrPH *This is a crowdfunding month for Trial By Error. Donations (tax-deductible to US tax-payers) go to the University of Calinfornia, Berkeley, to support the project. The link to the crowdfunding campaign is here: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/42302 Last week, Time magazine unveiled a list called the TIME100 Health—a selection of “leaders from across industries—scientists, doctors, … Trial By Error: Time’s Health100 List Includes Leaders in Long Covid and ME/CFS Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 10, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Jaime Seltzer Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A Conversation with the Co-Founders of The Sick Times
By David Tuller, DrPH Journalists Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis are the co-founders of The Sick Times, a non-profit that covers Long Covid and other chronic infection-related illnesses. They launched the site last November and have built up a solid following for their reporting, updates, and weekly newsletter. They recently received a $250,000 grant that … Trial By Error: A Conversation with the Co-Founders of The Sick Times Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 10, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Ladyzhets Long Covid Miles Griffis The Sick Times Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Interview with Co-Organizator of Next Week ’ s Unite To Fight Long Covid and ME/CFS Conference
By David Tuller, DrPH *This is a crowdfunding month at Berkeley for Trial By Error. If you appreciate my work, here’s a link to donate (tax-deductible to US taxpayers) directly to the university: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/42302 ********** Marco Wetzel, a digital sales expert, is one of five German Long Covid patients who banded together earlier this year … Trial By Error: Interview with Co-Organizator of Next Week’s Unite To Fight Long Covid and ME/CFS Conference Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 8, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Long Covid UniteToFight Wetzel Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Interview with Co-Organizator of Next Week ’ s Unite To Fight Long Covid Conference
By David Tuller, DrPH Marco Wetzel, a digital sales expert, is one of five German Long Covid patients who banded together earlier this year with an ambitious plan to produce a major online conference called UniteToFight. Although they faced some initial skepticism, they quickly rounded up some high-profile names as speakers for the free event, … Trial By Error: Interview with Co-Organizator of Next Week’s Unite To Fight Long Covid Conference Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 8, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Long Covid UniteToFight Wetzel Source Type: blogs
You Cannot Get Bird Flu From Pasteurized Milk
by Gertrud U. Rey Multiple recent outbreaks of “bird flu” in U.S. dairies are raising concerns about whether milk from infected cows is safe to drink. H5N1, the strain of influenza virus causing the outbreaks, is typically transmitted among birds but occasionally spreads to non-avian animals, including mammals. Prior to distribution, commercially sold milk is … You Cannot Get Bird Flu From Pasteurized Milk Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 2, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey avian flu bird flu conjunctivitis cow-to-cow transmission dairy dairy cow dairy farm egg inoculation test genomic fragments genomic sequences H5N1 H5N1 RNA human-to-human transmission infectious vir Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Berkeley ’ s May Crowdfunding Campaign Begins …
By David Tuller, DrPH Berkeley’s latest crowdfunding campaign for Trial By Error begins today. It is hard for me to believe that I have been working on this project—debunking awful research into what was then called “chronic fatigue syndrome,” and related issues–for ten years. My efforts began in the summer of 2014, when I traveled … Trial By Error: Berkeley’s May Crowdfunding Campaign Begins… Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 1, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Australian GP Group Recommends “ Incremental Physical Activity ” for “ CFS/ME ” Patients
By David Tuller, DrPH What’s going on with Aussie members of the graded exercise therapy cult? (Oops!—I meant the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, a trade and professional organization. Sorry!) In 2019, I wrote about the organization’s guidance for “CFS/ME.” This guidance, published in 2015, was part of the group’s Handbook of Non-Drug Interventions … Trial By Error: Australian GP Group Recommends “Incremental Physical Activity” for “CFS/ME” Patients Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 25, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized australia GET Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Discusses His Scathing Rebuke of the Biopsychosocial Brigades – Text Version
By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, I spoke with George Monbiot, a British investigative reporter and political activist, who has been a columnist for The Guardian for almost 30 years. He and I have been in occasional communication in recent years over an issue of mutual interest—the scandalous mistreatment of patients suffering from the devastating illness (or cluster … Trial By Error: Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Discusses His Scathing Rebuke of the Biopsychosocial Brigades–Text Version Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 23, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Guardian Long Covid monbiot Sharpe Swiss Re Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Discusses His Scathing Critique of the “ Biopsychosocial ” Approach to ME/CFS and Long Covid
By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier today I spoke with George Monbiot, a British investigative reporter and political activist, who has been a columnist for The Guardian for almost 30 years. He and I have been in occasional communication in recent years over an issue of mutual interest—the scandalous mistreatment of patients suffering from the devastating … Trial By Error: Guardian Columnist George Monbiot Discusses His Scathing Critique of the “Biopsychosocial” Approach to ME/CFS and Long Covid Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 18, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Guardian Long Covid monbiot Sharpe Swiss Re Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Senator Bernie Sanders ’ $10 Billion Long Covid “ Moonshot ” Proposal
By David Tuller, DrPH On April 9th, Senator Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who votes with the Democrats, unveiled an ambitious $10 billion “moonshot” proposal to fund research into Long Covid. The proposal has raised hopes among patients with the disease or cluster of diseases now being called ME/CFS—as well as concerns that … Trial By Error: Senator Bernie Sanders’ $10 Billion Long Covid “Moonshot” Proposal Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 14, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized davenport Long Covid moonshot Sanders Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: An Interview with the Authors of the European ME Alliance Survey of 11,000+ Patients
By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier this month, the European Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Alliance (EMEA) released a 235-page report on a survey of ME/CFS patients in Europe titled “Same disease, different approaches and experiences.” The authors are Arild Angelsen, a board member of the Norwegian ME Association and a professor at the School of Economics and Business … Trial By Error: An Interview with the Authors of the European ME Alliance Survey of 11,000+ Patients Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 14, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized EMEA Norwegian ME Association survey Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: REGAIN Team Responds to Criticism with Unconvincing Defenses of Methodological Missteps
By David Tuller, DrPH In recent weeks, I have been urging The BMJ to correct a flawed University of Warwick trial of an online mental and physical health rehab program for people with prolonged symptoms at least three months after hospitalization for Covid-19. The primary outcome was health-related quality of life, assessed with a measure … Trial By Error: REGAIN Team Responds to Criticism with Unconvincing Defenses of Methodological Missteps Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 12, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized BMJ Long Covid mcgregor REGAIN Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A New Study from Exeter on “ Brain Training ” for Treatment of Post-Covid Cognitive Problems
By David Tuller, DrPH The University of Exeter is now recruiting for a study of “brain training” as a treatment for prolonged cognitive dysfunction after a bout of Covid-19. I found out about this via a post on X. The post highlighted a message that had been sent to an unidentified patient from their medical … Trial By Error: A New Study from Exeter on “Brain Training” for Treatment of Post-Covid Cognitive Problems Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 10, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized brain fog brain training Exeter Long Covid Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: In England, Conflicts Between Families and Hospitals Threaten the Lives of Young Women with ME
By David Tuller, DrPH ME patients and advocates in England have been alarmed by a series of ongoing cases in which the families of severely ill young women have struggled to convince hospitals to fit them with feeding tubes before they starve to death. I covered a similar situation last year in a piece about … Trial By Error: In England, Conflicts Between Families and Hospitals Threaten the Lives of Young Women with ME Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 9, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized feeding tube Maeve Millie NHS hospitals Source Type: blogs
