Rapid response to the BMJ ‘living systematic review’ of long COVID interventions

The BMJ (British Medical Journal) recently published a ‘living’ systematic review of interventions for long COVID (post-COVID condition) by Zeraatkhar and coauthors.

I submitted a response to this paper — such letters to the editor are known at the BMJ as ‘rapid responses’ — to highlight some of the issues with the paper. My rapid response can be read here.

The paper contains myriad substantial errors and should never have been published. In-depth commentaries on this paper and its shortcomings have been provided by David Tuller and Prof. Brian Hughes, while ME/CFS Skeptic has written a characteristially excellent critique. The rapid response by Chloé de Canson and coauthors is also worth reading.