Where are the curious doctors? Why is there hardly any interest in patients with post-covid syndrome? Emeritus professor Jos van der Meer does not understand why so few doctors want to delve deeper into this mysterious disease. “Medicine starts with an observation at the sickbed and what we see in this group of patients is impressive,” he says.
He already predicted it in the summer of 2020, when the first corona wave was just ending: we would see a ‘boom’ of patients with post-covid fatigue, he said in de Volkskrant. Van der Meer (76) knows the history, he knows that an infectious disease can leave patients like a rag. For almost thirty years he conducted research into…
2024-02-19 00:14:00
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