Question
Lisa McCorkell, Hannah Wei, Athena Akrami, Hannah Davis, and Gina Assaf founded the Patient-Led Research Collaborative to study this condition. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this condition largely recognized due to patient activism aided by journalists like Ed Yong. Douglas Kell and Etheresia Pretorious have argued that this condition’s symptoms are caused by fibrin microclots.
ANSWER: long COVID [or post-COVID syndrome; or chronic COVID; or long-haul COVID; or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection; or PASC; prompt on COVID-19 infection or SARS-CoV-2 infection] (Some historians of science consider Long COVID the first illness “created” through patient connections on social media.)
[10e] Long COVID often manifests as a chronic form of this symptom that disproportionately affects women. A syndrome named for this symptom involves monthslong debilitating dizziness and exhaustion upon exertion.
ANSWER: chronic fatigue syndrome [or myalgic encephalomyelitis; or ME/CFS or ME/CFS; or chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome; or CFIDS; prompt on post-exertional malaise or PEM by asking “what condition is that diagnostic of?”; prompt on tiredness]
[10h] Long COVID sex differences may be due in part to these immune cells’ responsiveness to estrogen. D816V mutations in c-KIT cause a clonal expansion of these cells in a different disorder.
ANSWER: mast cells [or mastocytes; or labrocytes; accept mastocytosis; prompt on granulocytes, myeloid cells, immune cells, leukocytes, white blood cells, or WBCs]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Claremont A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Brown A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida A | Duke A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT A | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Rutgers B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ohio State A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | South Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UC Berkeley A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Penn A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yale B | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |