Fighting an invisible illness: The curse of Long COVID. By Milanda Rout
"Exhaustion, erratic heartbeat, brain fog, pain: women aged 31 to 45 are contracting Long COVID in greater numbers than any other part of the population. Why?"
First, fibro, ME/CFS, and other #PostInfectionSyndromes have a neuropsychoimmunological component.
The societal burdens placed on women, in addition to a general medical bias against women’s health issues, make small issues become big ones and make big issues ignored far too often.
Second, the age.
There’s a physiological shift in most humans near age 34. That shift may be causal to higher vulnerability to PIS.