Joel Salinas

It just makes me want to throw up because there's such an important need to do this research.

It's just critical to understand the long-term effects of it, and COVID isn't even gone yet.

So I just can't believe that people would even want to cut this research at all.

Yeah, I'm beyond stunned.

I'm revolted by it.

Well, I think that it is killing a lot of people still.

The disease hasn't gone away and it has a huge impact on health.

I think we're still feeling the impacts on that.

So I think that being able to understand what the impact is does require funding to be able to do the research.

And if we don't do that research, then we don't understand what interventions there can be.

Well, for sure, it impacts cognition.

We have people talking about brain fog and long COVID, and that has a real societal impact on productivity and people's ability to engage in life.

It affects people's mood.

And then you've got the people who have respiratory symptoms from COVID that have continued to go on, and that decreases their ability to do their day-to-day things.

It's a real societal impact.

I don't know.

I mean, I think it's an important priority, and I know that there are a lot of other priorities.

I think it needs to be weighed against a lot of other kind of big programs that are out there.

I just want to make sure that it doesn't go away because it needs to happen.

And I just want to make sure that the funding happens.