Date: 19th April 2021
This was the second Annual General Meeting of the All-Party Paliamentary Group (APPG) on ME.
Carol Monaghan MP summarised the group’s activities over the past year which included four evidence sessions looking at the key issues impacting people with ME in the UK.
Officers were then nominated for the APPG, and all were elected, including Carol Monaghan MP who was re-elected as chair.
Presentations were then given by Dr Nina Muirhead and Dr David Strain looking into the impact COVID-19 was having on the ME community. These covered general challenges facing people with ME, as well as looking in more depth at the similarities between ME and Long COVID.
An update was also provided by Dr Charles Shepherd on the place of ME patients in the COVID-19 vaccination programme.
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