September 26, 2025

Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, is a leading investigator into long Covid. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, to and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. She was one of the four scientific organizers of last month’s Keystone Symposium on “Long COVID and Other Post-Acute Infection Syndromes,” held in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Professor Iwasaki and I spoke recently about the symposium, the current state of Long COVID research, the debate over viral persistence, research on prolonged symptoms reported after COVID-19 vaccination, and related issues.

(via YouTube)