“I would word this as a massive public health problem… crisis that most of the world is yawning through and sleepwalking through. I think people are sleepwalking through this because it's too invisible.”

“.. if people realise that Long Covid is basically an immuno-compromised state, akin to immune compromised status of having HIV then I think …. it will actually change the course and the political momentum.”

“So the hypothesis that I had here was that Long Covid patients seem to have this constellation of symptoms that were resembling some kind of immune disturbance. So I thought that if we actually looked at underlying T cell responses to the virus, we could find a pattern that differentiated these patients from those who completely recovered after. As an immunologist, it kind of screamed let's look at the T cell response.”