Dr. John Lambert:

It depends upon the illness. Like the Chair said, if one gets the flu, one can be very critically unwell. However, two months later, almost everybody is recovered. Very few people have persistent symptoms. There are analogies. After getting chemotherapy, some people have what is called “chemo brain”. It has done some damage and they have persistent central nervous system, CNS, symptoms including brain fog in the long term. There are analogies with other disease areas. Lyme disease patients can have persistent symptoms years and years after they have been treated. The issue is that we know it is causing this, but how do we reverse it? That is the challenge. Patients do not want to stay sick for the rest of their lives.