"I share your frustration. I am frustrated that our CDC seems to be more focused on I guess vaccines than they are treatment for long COVID."
"I couldn't be more disappointed in what is coming out of the CDC right now."
"We don't have a good grasp of our grants."
"We have called for a viral gain of function moratorium until we can wrap our arms around this horrible situation."
"If we knew where COVID came from and what are we doing to prevent it?"
"I would suggest that this Committee maybe giving this type of money more to BARDA which seems to be more streamlined, more focused on working with the private sector."
"I think you give somebody $1 billion, we could have some studies done on diagnosis and treatment."
"As Senator Baldwin pointed out, we gave them over $1 billion December 2020. They have been focused on, as I call it, forming committees and praying about it."
"We need medications that will cause some relief of symptoms as we are trying to learn more about this disease."
"It would be great if in the primary care setting if there was a long COVID panel."
"We need to just find out, find treatments as soon as possible."
"We need to accelerate trials, so we actually find out what works and what doesn't."