For those of you who don't have the ability to sit through 2 hours of video, I've pulled some choice quotes from various panelists with the time stamps so you can jump to those if you want to hear for yourself. Again, very encouraging discussion. Now, can they execute in a rapid fashion on behalf of the thousands who are still very sick. For those of you suffering or caring for someone suffering, I hope these resonate and give you some encouragement.

https://youtu.be/-eorSN8x498

• 0:16:17 - Jay Bhattacharya NIH Director - "We have not made as much progress as the patients that we are representing deserve. I don't want to wait to know everything about the pathophysiology of the disease, I don't want to wait until we have the perfect diagnostic test, before we start to have real answers."
• 0:17:37 - Jay Bhattacharya NIH Director - "A year from now it won't be 20 million people suffering, but it will be 20 million people with answers and getting better."
• 0:18:28 - Dr. Jordan Vaughn - "There's a lot of things already out there on the shelf that we need to evaluate and utilize and actually are very available for people and is very effective in many ways."
• 0:30:37 - Dr. Robert Redfield, former CDC director - "The patient said, Dr. Redfield, I didn't cry because you said I was the sickest patient you've seen, I cried because you're the first doctor that acknowledged I was sick."
• 0:31:03 - Dr. Robert Redfield, former CDC director - "These patients have really been told there's nothing wrong with them, it's anxiety, they're making it up. No... it's organic."
• 0:42:22 - Dr. Jordan Vaughn - "I would say in this disease process, most patients probably know more about it than your typical physician or internists when you walk in. There are very few diseases like that."
• 0:42:52 - Dr. Jordan Vaughn - "The problem is when they try to find something to execute help for the issue that they have discovered is very difficult because physicians are unaware that this is causing issues."
• 0:59:38 - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. HHS Secretary - "That is one of the themes we hit on this morning... is that this is a constellation of symptoms and that each patient needs to be treated individually... We don't have biomarkers and we don't have many of the characterizations we have of other diseases."
• 1:07:58 - Dr. Michael Peluso - "The pace of clinical trials has been too slow. We need to get more trials into the field this year."
• 1:16:09 - Jim O'Neill Acting CDC Director - "So many people are suffering. People around them don't believe them, don't take them seriously."
• 1:12:25 - Jay Bhattacharya NIH Director - "We've been way too slow in evaluating [treatments]"
• 1:28:44 - Dr. Akiko Iwasaki - "We also heard about Invivyd which makes Pemgarda. They have a next generation monoclonal that is even more potent and we can trial in patients with long covid."
• 1:30:55 - Dr. Akiko Iwasaki - "for engaging industry, academia, and regulatory agencies altogether to expedite the process. Because as many of us already said, we really needed these randomized clinical trials yesterday."
• 1:31:27 - Jay Bhattacharya NIH Director - "It really is a tragedy that we spent so much money and time and not gotten those validated biomarkers."
• 1:41:03 - Dr. Bruce Patterson - "Subjective responses to therapy are so difficult. This population has been so sick... that it's really hard to say well I feel better, maybe I'm better, I don't know if I'm better. But to see their immune system resetting and getting back to normal on our panel... is so reassuring not only to us, but to them."
• 1:45:51 - Dr. Akiko Iwasaki - "Patients with Long COVID... are quite ill. Even if they wanted to participate in a trial, they are unable to come to these sites. So, we send the phlebotomist to their homes, we send all the surveys electronically, and the drugs are sent to their homes remotely."