Illuminating Long Covid: Ground Truths Podcast with Ziyad Al-Aly and Eric Topol 

Can’t thank the two of you enough for all you’re doing:1. To investigate this virus and its impact; and 2) to communicate risks to a sleeping populace. 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you both for your efforts to gather and make available useful information and for your standing up against the toxic climate surrounding these topics

This discussion is desperately needed as so many are suffering. Thank you both for your empathy and being passionate about this subject.

Thank you so much gentlemen!

You two will be honored by the history books, thank you for standing on the rock of truth friends. :)

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You give me a glimmer of hope!

Thanks to you both! So interesting to hear of the initial skepticism associated with the studies. I have disabling ME, likely initiated by EBV and an underlying primary immunodeficiency. I hope we’ve entered an era of research, and eventually clinical understanding of the connections between pathogens and chronic illness. I think the probability is high that a significant percentage of chronic illness is triggered by pathogens. Had we embraced a social structural change to indoor air and other mitigation measures, I feel like we could have made a leap forward. At the very least, I hope we’re taking steps forward in the realm of antivirals. Perhaps a lot of suffering could be avoided down the road by reduced viral load upfront. But I fear a lot of lessons have been lost on many.

Eric Topol and Ziyad Al - Aly, thanks for your great work! Most people are not aware of the risks of long covid and do not wear masks. What do you think if scientists and people put pressure on the W.H.O. to send a strong recommendation to member countries to publish informative videos on Long Covid on public TV channels?

Thank you for your discussion and efforts. We have very few advocates. Even t by e so-called specialists we must see do.t necessarily get what were going through.

Good to see Dr Al-Aly presenting his insights to US Senate Health committee, chair Bernie Sanders

Can we do something about all of the public health officials and physicians who are telling people-- unequivocally-- that it is fine to go out and get COVID now? My (usually great) PCP has been pressuring my family to drop our masking and precautions, insisting that COVID is no big deal now. How is this okay?? Why are these messages not getting to people who can influence policy and behavior?