'Long Covid' guidance urges referral to UK clinics after four weeks

Nice issues first guidelines but ME campaigners say they lack symptom management advice

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Patients with ongoing Covid symptoms should be referred to specialist clinics as early as four weeks after they develop the illness, according to the first official guidelines on the management of long Covid".

However, ME campaigners are disappointed that the guidelines fail to recognise a potential overlap between ongoing Covid symptoms and post-viral fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome), and that they provide no specific advice on symptom management - particularly how to deal with fatigue and energy management.