The Emerging Links Between Covid-19 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome may hold keys to understanding post-Covid syndrome

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
7 min readAug 25, 2020

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An illustration of a fatigued person, lying down on a bench and dreaming of a brighter day.
Illustration: Virginia Gabrielli

Almost everyone is familiar with the short-term symptoms of an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. These include a fever, cough, breathing problems, fatigue, diarrhea, and other flu-like symptoms. While some doctors have raised alarms

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.