Small detail, but for once I'd really like for someone to actually tell the truth: they don't even partially understand anything about it. And as far as I'm aware, nothing that wasn't known 5 years ago, and almost nothing that was known 20 years ago.Long COVID has affected up to 2% of the entire UK population in the last five years, but we still don’t fully understand this often-debilitating disease.
The first half is a bit of an intro for the general audience, in the second half she walks through the work her group actually doesI watched half of Emma Wall's presentation and was unimpressed. It seemed to be a rag-bag account of all the things we have already heard of and one or two that we may not have but may not tell us much more. There seemed to be no attempt to critique or discriminate. If there is evidence for this many things being wrong then most of that evidence must be redundant and irrelevant. The tired old duo of viral persistence and autoimmunity came up.
The speaker sounded more like a journalist commentator than a scientist should. Yet there were the usual phrases you get from people who like to give an impression of being at the cutting edge: 'we think that...'. Who is we?