New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has released the country’s first clinical manual for treating infection-associated chronic illnesses, according to an Aug. 13 news release.  The clinical manual covers several infection-associated chronic illnesses, including long COVID, long Lyme disease, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. 

Four hundred million people in the world have experienced long COVID, and millions more live with other infection-associated chronic illnesses, according to David Putrino, PhD, the Nash Family Director of the Cohen Center.  “Our clinic can only take on around 700 new patients a year, so clearly there’s a huge discrepancy there,” Dr. Putrino said in a statement. “Releasing this manual is a way for us not only to c

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