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Dr. Anthony Komaroff of Harvard Medical School identified “post-exertional malaise” (PEM) as a symptom of myalgic encephalomyelitis, also called chronic fatigue syndrome.
In 2003, Health Canada recognized PEM as the defining trait of ME/CFS.
PEM’s adverse reaction to stress, whether physical, emotional or cognitive, has left up to 4 million people with long COVID out of work.
V. Jo Hsu is an assistant professor who studies health inequities at the University of Texas at Austin and a person living with ME/CFS.
They are the author of “Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics” and a Public Voices Fellow of the Op-Ed Project.
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