“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.”

“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?”

“There are so many questions that are unanswered about Long Covid. We're just scratching the surface of this disease.. that's why it's dangerous to come to a conclusion at this stage - because we know so little. It doesn't mean that we aren't looking. We're looking very hard. I'm obsessed about trying to understand this disease, and many scientists are, so hopefully will chip away at this disease. But we need to be open minded and humble about what's going on.”