‘Frightening’ connections between long COVID, fibromyalgia, fatigue warrant more research

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Long COVID, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome demonstrate overlapping characteristics that warrant further investigation, according to a speaker at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.
“Fatigue is the real kind of final frontier where we feel powerless in our clinics,” Leonard Calabrese, DO, RJ Fasenmyer chair of clinical immunology at the Cleveland Clinic, and chief medical editor of Healio Rheumatology, told attendees during the hybrid meeting. “It is not an insignificant symptom in our world, yet we run for

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Long COVID, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome demonstrate overlapping characteristics that warrant further investigation, according to a speaker at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.
“Fatigue is the real kind of final frontier where we feel powerless in our clinics,” Leonard Calabrese, DO, RJ Fasenmyer chair of clinical immunology at the Cleveland Clinic, and chief medical editor of Healio Rheumatology, told attendees during the hybrid meeting. “It is not an insignificant symptom in our world, yet we run for