About the Authors

Laura Panagi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lp579@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Simon R. White

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Snehal M. Pinto Pereira

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Manjula D. Nugawela

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Isobel Heyman

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Kishan Sharma

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Division of Neuroscience & Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Terence Stephenson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Trudie Chalder

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Natalia K. Rojas

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Emma Dalrymple

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Kelsey McOwat

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Immunisation Department, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom

Ruth Simmons

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation Immunisation Department, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom

Olivia Swann

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

CLoCk Consortium

Membership of CLoCk Consortium is provided in Supporting information file S1 File.

Tamsin Ford

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Roz Shafran

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

TS is Chair of the Health Research Authority and therefore recused himself from the Research Ethics Application. TC is a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence committee for long COVID. She has written self-help books on chronic fatigue and has done workshops on chronic fatigue and post infectious syndromes. All remaining authors have no conflicts of interest.