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Todd Davenport

@sunsopeningband.bsky.social
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Non nobis solum nati sumus. Husband. Dad x3. Upstreamist. Pracademic. Oregifornian. Storyteller. It’ll be ok in the end. If it’s not ok then it ain’t the end. Alphabet soup after my name: DPT PhD MPH OCS. www.linkedin.com/in/todd-davenport-…

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Upcoming Renegade Research @renegaderesearch.bsky.social Events www.renegade-research.org us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Image: massmecfs.org/newsletters/... #LongCovid #MEcfs @sunsopeningband.bsky.social @ciarawrightphd.bsky.social
Upcoming Renegade Research Events

Renegade Research hosts a series of Research Roundtables and Clinician's Roundtables.

Upcoming events in March are:

 

Clinician’s Roundtable: John Haughton MD, MS - The Remission Biome Protocol. Clinicians and patients are invited to learn the protocol in detail.
March 7, 2025 - 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT). Register here.

 

Clinician’s Roundtable: Tania Dempsey, MD - Vector-borne illnesses. Co-infections in ME/CFS and Long COVID.
March 14, 2025 - 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT). Register here.

 

Research Roundtable: The Acid Test: a Patient-led Study of Lactate in ME/CFS and Long COVID 
Todd Davenport, PhD, and Ciara Wright, PhD. will discuss the latest research on this patient-led study.

March 28, 2025 - 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT). Register here.
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marydimmock.bsky.social @marydimmock.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Todd Davenport and I were on Cochrane's author team for a full update of their #MECFS exercise review. We wrote this open letter to them, critical of their decision to disband the effort, called for withdrawal of current review @sunsopeningband.bsky.social (1/2) drive.google.com/file/d/12__3...
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Author Open Letter to Cochrane Mar 2025.pdf
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marydimmock.bsky.social @marydimmock.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Todd and I also wrote an open letter to the #MECFS community to: a) share the final version of the draft protocol for the ME/CFS exercise review as submitted to Cochrane in Feb 2023 b) solicit comments as originally promised (2/2) @sunsopeningband.bsky.social drive.google.com/file/d/1JK06...
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Community Letter re Cochrane Mar 2025.pdf
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Neurologist Mom @neurologistmom.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“The first step in being hopeful, I think, is being honest. That keeps hope from becoming baselessly optimistic and untethered from reality...” Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social has a message for us. #LC2025hopevideos Thank you for your honesty about hope! youtu.be/dEXtHJPbDbw?...
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A message from Todd Davenport on Long COVID Awareness Day 2025
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The cancelled protocol for a new Cochrane review of exercise therapy for ME/CFS by @marydimmock.bsky.social & @sunsopeningband.bsky.social www.s4me.info/threads/2025... From the latest Science for ME weekly update #MEcfs #CFS
Cochrane review Exercise therapy for ME/CFS

The cancelled protocol for a new review
An author group was appointed in 2020 to write a new protocol and review to replace the 2019 review, Exercise Therapy for CFS by Larun et al. Cochrane announced in December 2024 that they had rejected the protocol, and cancelled the new review process.

Letter to the Cochrane Board
Two members of the author team, Mary Dimmock and Todd Davenport, have written to Dr. Susan Phillips, Chair, Cochrane Governing Board. They express their shock at Cochrane's decision, reveal the lengthy process they went through with Cochrane to agree the protocol, with four revisions, question the grounds for Cochrane's decisions, and argue that Cochrane's rules should allow the review to be withdrawn on the grounds of harm. They conclude: "Accordingly, we call on Cochrane to immediately withdraw the Larun et al ME/CFS exercise review."
Thread with letter
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Robert Saunders (aka McMullen) @roberthmcmullen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“The net result of all this is that Cochrane has flash-incinerated their credibility, or what was left of it” Prof Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Useful piece with some depth by David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social “Really pissed off”: Cochrane receives backlash from advocates and experts after abandoning ME/CFS review thesicktimes.org/2025/02/04/r... Has quotes from Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social & Mary Dimmock #MEcfs #CFS
“Really pissed off”: Cochrane receives backlash from advocates and experts after abandoning ME/CFS review
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David Tuller

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February 4, 2025
Headshot of Dr. Karla Soares-Weiser, with a tan background on either side of the photo
Cochrane editor-in-chief Dr. Karla Soares-Weiser. Image via Cochrane / BMJ.
Key points you should know:

Cochrane produces systematic reviews of medical interventions that are influential for clinicians seeking to provide evidence-based care.
 
A 2019 review controversially recommended exercise therapy for ME/CFS, despite questions about the quality of the evidence and the experiences of people with the disease.
 
Cochrane acknowledged problems with the review and promised a complete update, then abruptly dropped the update project in December 2024.
 
The situation has sparked sharp criticism of Cochrane from ME/CFS advocates and researchers.
 
An online petition seeking withdrawal of the 2019 review has attracted more than 15,000 signers.
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
“The Biden administration had its own softer version of COVID erasure...’” said @sunsopeningband.bsky.social “I think Trump is just being much more explicit about erasing COVID.” thesicktimes.org/2025/02/21/t...
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Trump commands HHS to terminate advisory committee on Long COVID - The Sick Times
A new executive order from the Trump Administration commands the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID. The order, “Commencing the...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Every week, I check the CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. This week for the first time in its 60 years it was not published on schedule. American healthcare workers all over the country are less informed about health crises that affect their patients. CDC led reports matter a 🧵
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If u like chronic illness humor, you will like my account
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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Pflegeherz @pflegeherz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Dazu würde ja auch passen, was @sunsopeningband.bsky.social kürzlich veröffentlicht hat. Hier zwar bezogen auf Long Covid, aber für mein Empfinden lässt sich das gar nicht mehr trennen von #MECFS: www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/14...
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Long COVID Is Not a Functional Neurologic Disorder
Long COVID is a common sequela of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Data from numerous scientific studies indicate that long COVID involves a complex interaction between pathophysiological processes. Long COVID m...
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Just received notice that my NIH study section next week has been cancelled. It has nothing to do with DEI and will have a negative impact on critical cancer research.
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KLM @klm.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
related: did i just miss the moment when these freaks added A-for-accessibility to DEI?
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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
An administration willing to capriciously halt NIH activity wants to appoint as NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who has spread conspiracy theories about the agency. (ht @gorskon.bsky.social) www.respectfulinsolence.com/2022/05/03/n...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025
The thing that’s most striking about this is that they set up an e-mail account specifically for people to report on each other for any attempt to implement “DEIA or similar ideologies” and threatened “adverse consequences” for NOT reporting.
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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46 For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
An image of NIH campus. Text says : With annual budget of more than $47 billion, NIH is the largest single public funder of biomedical and behavioural research in the world. In fiscal year 2023, NIH funding generated an estimated $92.89 billion in economic activityEvery state and almost every congressional district received a share of NIH investment
Each year, NIH awards over 60,000 grants that directly support more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 different institutions
In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I like the quiet on here from no outrage algorithm but it’s hard to tell whether some of the stuff I post gets seen because there’s never much engagement. Maybe that will change over time because I’m still new. For now, it’s hard to know if I’m just posting these long threads into the void. Oh well.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
But the price of eggs!
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Defrosting your car in some parts of California looks like spraying the windshield…with water…from a garden hose. 😄
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Naomi Harvey PhD @naomidharvey.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I think a big difference that reduces engagement is that ‘likes’ have no effect here, and people tend to like rather than repost. But the only way more people will see a post, is if their followers repost it 😕
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I like the quiet on here from no outrage algorithm but it’s hard to tell whether some of the stuff I post gets seen because there’s never much engagement. Maybe that will change over time because I’m still new. For now, it’s hard to know if I’m just posting these long threads into the void. Oh well.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Everyone is so mad at Biden protecting people from the inevitable upcoming partisan witch hunts as the last thing he did that it apparently makes them totally cool with Trump pardoning the worst people you can think of as the first thing he does. Feature, not bug. nypost.com/2025/01/21/u...
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Exclusive | Trump announces pardon for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, vacating life sentence
President Trump announced Tuesday night that he had granted a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the notorious dark web site Silk Road.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Preventing public health agencies from communicating with the public will not make America healthy again. This will leave us in the dark in the middle of respiratory season, with serious ongoing concerns about everything from bird flu to cases of whooping cough.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
this seems bad
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Passports didn't have a gender marker before 1978 when the UN made them mandatory because of "the rise of unisex fashion and hairstyles." Removing them would require a change in rules from the UN's International Civic Aviation Organization.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I'm not mad at anyone, but I think you'll find that, for the most part, the problem was not too much panic but too much complacency.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
People with intersex biological characteristics make up about 1.5-2% of the population. So much for there only being two sexes.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Elon lives in a consequence free environment, so he can do his trolly nonsense because he knows he can get away with it. The ultra wealthy are an ungovernable class that we have permitted to not conform to our legal and social norms. This latest Nazi salute episode shouldn’t really surprise anyone.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The price of eggs is definitely going down now.
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a man wearing a bow tie and vest is clapping his hands in front of a window .
Alt: a man wearing a bow tie and vest is rubbing his together hands in front of a window .
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Oh man, I can practically hear the price of eggs falling like a rock.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I’ve worked with tons of people with different abilities and disabilities. The people who do a Nazi salute are not disabled or differently baked. They’re Nazis.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter. But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The White House ordering DOJ to drop pending prosecutions is a breach of the department’s traditional independence that would be an earthshaking scandal under ordinary circumstances.
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Saskia Popescu @saskiapopescu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
And here it is. In the middle of an H5N1 outbreak, Marburg case in Tanzania, ongoing health crises, etc. Ugh. A terrible decision that will have long-term implications.
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WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM THE WORLDHEALTH ORGANIZATION – The White House
WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Reminding myself: Americans voted for this.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Reminding myself: Americans voted for this.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is all going to be so clownish.
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Katharina 🦋🍋🍀 @katha1970.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
‼️Important opportunity for #LongCovid patients & MDs‼️ Please share your experiences with medications and supplements tried for Long Covid in the FDA/CureID "Long Covid Treatment Survey" until Jan 31st. Results may influence clinical trials! Link: cure.ncats.io/pilot-overvi..., then click "share".
Screenshot of a Post from Hannah Davis on X asking Long Covid patients, care partners and healthcare providers to share experiences with Long Covid treatment attempts with Cure ID for data analyses. Screenshot of a Post from Hannah Davis on X reminding Long Covid patients, care partners and healthcare providers to share experiences with Long Covid treatment attempts with Cure ID for data analyses, specifying that the results will go right into the hands of people at the FDA and elsewhere and will be used to help inform clinical trial selections and guidelines.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The officiating at Chiefs games is…different.
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Health Care Voices @healthcarevoices.org · 18/01/2025
Medicaid pays for 40% of births in the US. Covers more than 60% of residents of nursing homes. So if you have a state facing a big budget deficit because federal funds for Medicaid are dramatically reduced, they're gonna have to make cuts... Watch full #CareTalk ep: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymbh...
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Understanding The Devastating Impact Of Medicaid Cuts
Medicaid pays for 40% of births in the United States. It covers more than 60% of residents of nursing homes. So if you have a state facing a big budget deficit because the federal funds for Medicaid are dramatically reduced, they're gonna have to cut those who are eligible, cut the services that are provided. Watch the full interview on threats to Medicaid with Edwin Park of Georgetown Center for Children and Families: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymbhZpSUhHs #Medicaid #healthcare #healthinsurance
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Darren Brown OBE @darrenabrown.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Here we go people … after many years of hard work by so many people the #LongCOVID Video Series translations has its first fully complete series in French 🎉🎉🎉 Huge thanks to @apresj20.bsky.social Myléne 🇫🇷 Annie-Claude 🇨🇦 @fisiocamera.bsky.social
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Katharina 🦋🍋🍀 @katha1970.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#UniteToFight2024 The talk by Prof. Dr. Todd Davenport, Professor of Physical Therapy & Chair of Long Covid Physio, on 'Phenotyping responses to exertion in #MECFS and #LongCovid', is now also available with 🇪🇸 subtitles: youtu.be/YHu87Cbhj5o @sunsopeningband.bsky.social @longcovidphysio.bsky.social
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Prof. Dr. Todd Davenport: Phenotyping Responses to Exertion in ME/CFS & Long Covid (Day 2, Block 6)
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Katharina 🦋🍋🍀 @katha1970.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Thanks to @onaalbizu.bsky.social, the highly insightful #UniteToFight2024 talk by Dr. Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social is now also available with Spanish subtitles.
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Katharina 🦋🍋🍀 @katha1970.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#UniteToFight2024 La charla del Prof. Dr. Todd Davenport, Profesor de Fisioterapia y Presidente de Long Covid Physio, sobre la fenotipificación de las respuestas al esfuerzo en #EMSFC y #LongCovid, ya está disponible también con subtítulos en 🇪🇸: youtu.be/YHu87Cbhj5o @sunsopeningband.bsky.social
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Prof. Dr. Todd Davenport: Phenotyping Responses to Exertion in ME/CFS & Long Covid (Day 2, Block 6)
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Katharina 🦋🍋🍀 @katha1970.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Muchísimas gracias a Ona Albizu @onaalbizu.bsky.social por subtitular la importantísima charla del profesor Dr. Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social sobre #MalestarPostEsfuerzo #PEM en #CovidPersistente y #EMSFC en español. Por favor, mírenla y compártanla ampliamente.
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Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Our paper “Physical Therapy Management of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome Using a Pacing-Forward Clinical Approach: A Case Report” was accepted for publication by the Internet Journal of Allied Health Science and Practice, with Dr. Clayton Powers and Dr. Nicole Miranda.
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Heike @heikewigr.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
“Imagine you go to an emergency department, you wait 13 or 14 hours, your condition actually deteriorates, and then you’re told, ‘Hey, good news, everything is normal” .... Excellent article about mistreatment of #Longcovid similar to what has happened to #MECFS patients for decades. #medsky
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Dismissed and Disbelieved, Some Long COVID Patients Are Pushed Into Psychiatric Wards
The chronic illnesses that make doctors doubt their patients often start after what “should” be a short-lived sickness—like COVID-19.
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