“Your brain doesn’t care what hits it.” – Daniel Daneshvar, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, on how repetitive head injuries experienced by professional football players can be one of the many potential risk factors for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

“This is where I get a little more nervous, because a very transmissible variant is going to hit the United States, and even though the critical illness rate is low, if you’re talking about 330 million people, those numbers are starting to drop. ‘add up really quickly. ” – Katelyn Jetelina, PhD, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, on arrival of Omicron.

“We have a duty to ensure that these deaths are properly certified, and we must withstand these challenges.” – James Gill, MD, chief medical examiner for Connecticut, on requests to remove COVID-19 as a cause of death from death certificates.

“The problem with natural immunity is that you have to be infected to get natural immunity.” – Krishna Udayakumar, MD, of the Duke Global Health Institute, at a House committee hearing on how infection can make a person vulnerable to complications, lengthy COVID and death.

“I know we have work to do, but we have made tremendous progress.” – Sandra Lindsay, RN, DHSc, the first person in the United States to receive the COVID vaccine, the year after their first dose.

“I felt really bad when I saw some of the comments … I don’t want to worry about those poor kids getting ready to apply for residency or something.” – James Berry, DO, of Riverside University Health System Medical Center in Southern California, on his study which was criticized for linking FICO credit scores to surgical residency performance.

“It’s really hard to separate fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, breathing problems, etc. Sometimes treating fatigue, for example, can help resolve certain cognitive dysfunctions.” – Benjamin Abramoff, MD, University of Pennsylvania, on New Clinical Directions for the Management of Long COVID Symptoms.

“Whatever the outcome here, there will certainly be a lot more work to be done.” – Hillary Schneller, Esq, Lawyer at the Center for Reproductive Rights and Senior Co-Lawyer at Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, on how the High Court ruling might impact healthcare providers.

“At the very beginning, no one really knew what was going on. But there were incidents where black people died or became sicker, especially as essential workers.” – Leigh Evans, director of community development for Eastern Star Church in Indianapolis, on efforts to address racial disparities linked to COVID.

“With COVID, and obviously more severe COVID infections in B-cell depleted patients and the inability to respond to vaccination, I would actually say maintenance is a questionable practice in 2021 in follicular lymphoma.” – Brad Kahl, MD, Washington University in St. Louis, on a randomized trial that favored retreatment over maintenance treatment.