“Do you classify Long Covid as a neurological condition, for everyone, regardless of their symptomatology?”

“Absolutely yes, I think a major component of Long Covid is neurological, and by neurological I don’t mean only central neurological, peripheral neurological….”

“I estimated those costs all together… for the US would be about $3.5 trillion dollars which is a huge amount of money, which just tells you kind of the scale of the number of people who have Long Covid, and how disabling it can be both in terms of their health and in terms of their incomes, their ability to work, and how much medical spending is involved.”

“Our reward system is - how many papers, how many citations, how many grants… and what enamoured me as I got started in my career was the idea that none of that really matters if you haven't made a difference in people's lives. So the question really is - what's the value of the information you're producing? And how can you do it in a way that that makes a difference?”