Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue

Long Covid is really not new. It is virtually indistinguishable from the condition long known in the medical lexicon as post-infectious syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Although some have recognized and studied their similarities, it seems no one has made the simplifying observation that they are essentially the same condition.[1]

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/14/long-covid-me-cfs-myalgi...

Because COVID got political if you drop COVID from the name your ability to get funding and attention to study it falls off a cliff.

I really don't understand this comment? Its quite commonly known that this is the same/related?

Your 'source' is btw. from 2023 and as far as i understand it, the main issue is, that due to covid, a lot more people got it but because it was already ignored or played down before, it still is and the people in need just don't get help.

Covid apparently triggered it in more people than before.

I also have the feeling that someone else posted this missconception a few weeks ago on hn. Or was that you too?