“When we talk about Long Covid on planet Earth, I think the lower estimates are about 60 million and the upper estimates are at 400 million globally. It's not a disease of the wealthy worried well in the UK or the US or whatever, it's a disease of six to 10% of everybody on planet earth has ever had COVID-19, no matter where they are. So if the stakes are that high, why on earth can't we regain some of that battle spirit and momentum? I think it does come into kind of policy and politics.”

“If we’ve learned anything, this is not something anyone wants to get… The fact that there's a genomics that underlie Long Covid tells you how real it is, right? And then the fact that we will get treatments to people, all these things reinforce how big an issue.”