🔎 Can long Covid finally solve the mystery of chronic illnesses like M.E.?
– many of whom contracted Covid early on in the pandemic – which could help to foster a greater understanding within the medical community of the patient experience of chronic illness, says Alwan. “Healthcare professionals must harness that double role that some may now have – as both patient and doctor,” she says.
The emergence of long Covid has also opened people’s eyes to just how frighteningly little is still understood about the workings of the human immune system, as well as to the vulnerability of global populations to disease. “Post-viral illness is not a new thing… in fact, every policymaker and scientist should have thought of the possibility of long Covid right from the start of the pandemic,” says Alwan.
It remains unclear whether long Covid research could also benefit our understanding of other common chronic diseases, such as endometriosis or diabetes. So far, crossover research has mainly focused on post-viral disease. But the sheer scale of those affected by long Covid could be an opportunity to improve how we manage chronic illness in a healthcare setting.
Sherwood is keen to emphasise how important it is that future research or trials into long Covid consider existing biases. “You’ve got this ‘yuppie flu’ association, that it’s people who can afford to complain who are getting ill, when in fact that’s not the case, even if they seem more visible,” Sherwood tells me, citing the white, middle-class representation of long Covid sometimes depicted in the media.
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