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    First Update From Dianna (Physics Girl)

    BySteve

    Dianna Cowern, also known as “The Physics Girl” after her massively successful YouTube channel, wants people to know about the disease ME/CFS. In May 2025, Dianna Cowern updates us on her journey and recovery following a Covid infection in Autumn of 2023. Dianna reveals that she’s made progress and beginning to be able to enjoy some limited activities. Whilst she is recovering, she parallels the continued severe suffering of her friend Tobias Schweikert who lives in Germany, reminding us that so much more needs to be done worldwide for those who continue to suffer, with no end in sight.

    Kyle (Dianna’s Husband): “It’s been over two years of being sick essentially approaching two years of like bed bound her quality of life is unimaginably low right now still she can’t get out of bed she can’t clean herself she can’t take a shower she can’t…”

    Derek Muller (Veritasium): “I think the thing that’s shocking to me as well is like this lack of ability to have anything really to occupy your mind right like it’s not like she can’t really read or audio books or movies.”

  • Norwegian study shows – ME patients rarely return to work

    BySteve

    What can wage development before and after a G93.3 diagnosis tell us about prognoses for myalgic encephalomyelitis?

    A Norwegian study has shown that patients diagnosed with ME typically decline permanently in terms of their earning capabilities, as illustrated below by the drop in their average wage income over a period starting 9 years before diagnosis in 2016, until 9 years later in 2025. Less than 6% maintained an income of at least median wages after diagnosis.

    Nine years before diagnosis, the men earned slightly less than their controls. Wages in the men’s groups then started falling sharply towards Y0 and continued falling in the first year after (Y1). They then fell more gradually towards Y9. The women’s average wages 9 years before diagnosis were slightly below their female controls. The wages fell more sharply between 2 years before and 1 year after diagnosis, where they stabilized at a low level.

    Fig. 3. Comparing group average wages for men and women 18–67 years old, diagnosed with G93.3, from 9 years before until 9 years after diagnosis (N = 6249) using 2009–2018 data to simulate values for the control group (N = 2739).

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