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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

...of it affecting the immune system, that is real. When possible, I look at the lymphocytes or white cells of patients with long Covid. Many of them have low lymphocytes. If a person has the flu, his or her lymphocytes go low but when the person recovers from the flu, a week later the level is back to normal. With some long Covid patients, however, my observation is that patients are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

...a vaccine every three to four months for the rest of your life is not a sustainable strategy. There are new vaccines coming along that are not mRNA vaccines but protein vaccines, similar to the flu vaccine that people get once a year. Technology is developing. I would push for populations that are severely immunocompromised, people who would die if they got Covid, to continue to get the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

...who have really low immune systems, such as cancer, transplant or AIDS patients. We have a lot to learn about Covid and the public should be aware that for some patients, it is not just a simple flu virus.