e-3391 (Health)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- There are 580,000 Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in Canada;
- ME/CFS has double the disease burden of HIV (Mirin et al, 2020);
- ME/CFS has lower quality of life than congestive heart failure (Komaroff, 1996);
- ME/CFS has no diagnostic test, and no approved treatment;
- ME/CFS is only funded $280,000 a year;
- ME/CFS is developing in a subset of Long-Haul COVID-19 patients;
- Statistics Canada has not collected objective data on the economic impact of ME/CFS patients;
- The Economic Impact of ME/CFS is $51 Billion Dollars a year in the US (Jason et al, 2020);
- 80% of ME/CFS patients are women; and
- More Black, Indigenous, People of Colour will develop ME/CFS from long-haul COVID-19 because these populations have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
- Open for signature
- May 13, 2021, at 10:22 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- September 10, 2021, at 10:22 a.m. (EDT)