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Speaker 0: Because there was such a mass vaccination campaign with a product that, you know, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people were injured in this process, what work is the NIH doing in terms of research to somehow help these people? Because just from my own experience, my wife and I made a film about this, right? These people were, even though in some cases they were supported a bit by, but mostly just completely gaslit and just, no, your issue doesn't exist. Right? So how are you approaching this?
Speaker 1: Well, you're absolutely right. There were absolutely like, lot patients of who were vaccine injured were gaslit, pretending as if they didn't get injured or that somehow their symptoms are all
Speaker 1: in their head or something. Actually, this is part of a broader phenomenon, where, you have patients with conditions that are poorly understood, where the medical system will gaslight them leave. They can they're telling you it's a a psychological issue rather than a physical issue. It should make you think that you're crazy because you you you have symptoms that you just, you know you have, but you can't convince anyone else to do anything about it. Injury is one of them, long COVID, MECFS, Lyme chronic Lyme disease, a whole host of these conditions where it just fits a very similar pattern.
Speaker 1: The key underlying thing is that there isn't excellent science to guide decision making for clinicians or anybody else, for patients. And I've made sure that people know at the NIH that I'm very interested in investing in answers for patients for all of those. Vaccine injury, long COVID, MECFS, chronic Lyme. We need to get better answers. The the gaslighting happens because the, if you're let's say you're a doctor and you see a patient and you have no idea what's causing their condition.
Speaker 1: Right? Because the scientific literature doesn't have an answer. You're gonna be unless you're an amazing doctor who's really good at, you know, sort of being honest and compassionate, you're going to be wanting to, like, move on to the next patient. And, it's really, really unfortunate. The answer is to get good answers, right?
Speaker 1: So invest in, research on treatments, on underlying physiology, physiological causes, you know, basic biological knowledge, so that those patients actually can can the doctors and the caregivers for those patients can will treat them correctly.
Speaker 0: So but is is NIH doing this for people that are that have been COVID vaccine injures against a huge number of people relatively.
Speaker 1: We have investments in that, and we're going have more investments in that at the start, you know, this year. For all of those conditions, I think patients deserve an answer, and I'm definitely, interested in finding I would love to know myself.