Thank you very much.
My first question is for Dr. Njoo. One of the things we've heard from the witnesses, and which we've alluded to already today, is that at our last meeting, when we heard from the patients, the people who have suffered from Lyme disease, they did not feel that they were made equal partners in the development of this framework. That was one of the things they were calling for.
I give that quite a bit of weight, coming from them. My question for you would be this: how could we further expand the framework in order to make them equal partners? In particular, how do we make them equal partners in speaking to testing, to diagnosis, and to treatment?
Going forward, it would be my hope that we would strengthen this framework. In so doing, I believe that these individuals need to be called to the table and made equal partners. What would that look like going forward?