Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan

And later, when they'd had time to do the science properly, and they were now comparing people with long COVID with people who were in the pandemic who didn't get COVID, They also had hundreds of symptoms.

And later, when they'd had time to do the science properly, and they were now comparing people with long COVID with people who were in the pandemic who didn't get COVID, They also had hundreds of symptoms.

So science of long COVID was very poor at the beginning. And the general public was scared witless by this concept that they could get chronically ill even if they weren't hospitalized. And much like other people I've described, like the lady with Huntington's disease, if you think you're going to get chronically ill, then a small proportion of us will get chronically ill.

So science of long COVID was very poor at the beginning. And the general public was scared witless by this concept that they could get chronically ill even if they weren't hospitalized. And much like other people I've described, like the lady with Huntington's disease, if you think you're going to get chronically ill, then a small proportion of us will get chronically ill.

So science of long COVID was very poor at the beginning. And the general public was scared witless by this concept that they could get chronically ill even if they weren't hospitalized. And much like other people I've described, like the lady with Huntington's disease, if you think you're going to get chronically ill, then a small proportion of us will get chronically ill.

I don't want to be dismissive of it because it served a very important purpose. There were people dying and that was terrible. And there were people losing loved ones and that was terrible. And there were people losing jobs and that was terrible. But there were also a lot of other people who were suffering and there was no space for them. Where did they go?

I don't want to be dismissive of it because it served a very important purpose. There were people dying and that was terrible. And there were people losing loved ones and that was terrible. And there were people losing jobs and that was terrible. But there were also a lot of other people who were suffering and there was no space for them. Where did they go?

I don't want to be dismissive of it because it served a very important purpose. There were people dying and that was terrible. And there were people losing loved ones and that was terrible. And there were people losing jobs and that was terrible. But there were also a lot of other people who were suffering and there was no space for them. Where did they go?

People at home alone with nobody to talk to who weren't necessarily physically very ill. Long COVID gave them a voice. It gave them a group. It gave them a place to go and it gave them a name for their suffering that other people gave more respect to than just we're all in a pandemic and I'm having a horrible time. Nobody had any sympathy for that.

People at home alone with nobody to talk to who weren't necessarily physically very ill. Long COVID gave them a voice. It gave them a group. It gave them a place to go and it gave them a name for their suffering that other people gave more respect to than just we're all in a pandemic and I'm having a horrible time. Nobody had any sympathy for that.

People at home alone with nobody to talk to who weren't necessarily physically very ill. Long COVID gave them a voice. It gave them a group. It gave them a place to go and it gave them a name for their suffering that other people gave more respect to than just we're all in a pandemic and I'm having a horrible time. Nobody had any sympathy for that.

So it served an important social purpose.

So it served an important social purpose.

So it served an important social purpose.

I think it's kind of a multifactorial. Lots of people have to change a lot of things that they're doing. First of all, as a medical community, we need to really challenge this assumption that early diagnosis works because we've been diagnosing cancer, blood pressure, diabetes earlier. We're not making anyone any better.

I think it's kind of a multifactorial. Lots of people have to change a lot of things that they're doing. First of all, as a medical community, we need to really challenge this assumption that early diagnosis works because we've been diagnosing cancer, blood pressure, diabetes earlier. We're not making anyone any better.

I think it's kind of a multifactorial. Lots of people have to change a lot of things that they're doing. First of all, as a medical community, we need to really challenge this assumption that early diagnosis works because we've been diagnosing cancer, blood pressure, diabetes earlier. We're not making anyone any better.

I think we do need, and this might sound a bit strange, to dial back on some of the mental health campaign awareness work that we're doing because there was a very interesting study out recently that showed that raising mental health awareness in schools actually added to emotional distress rather than subtracting from it.

I think we do need, and this might sound a bit strange, to dial back on some of the mental health campaign awareness work that we're doing because there was a very interesting study out recently that showed that raising mental health awareness in schools actually added to emotional distress rather than subtracting from it.

I think we do need, and this might sound a bit strange, to dial back on some of the mental health campaign awareness work that we're doing because there was a very interesting study out recently that showed that raising mental health awareness in schools actually added to emotional distress rather than subtracting from it.