Up Next: August Events

#SurvivorCorps Newsletter #17 / August 16, 2021

Survivor Corps’ Facebook Group is 172,000+ members strong,
advocating on your behalf for more funding and more research
for a better understanding of COVID-19 and Long Term COVID.

Andy Slavitt’s Podcast-
In The Bubble/Our Shot:
Channeling COVID Outrage
Monday, August 16th

Andy Slavitt, President Biden’s Senior Advisor on COVID-19, is back from the White House and in the Chair for his award-winning In the Bubble podcast. This 10-week ‘Our Shot’ series is all about leading us out of the pandemic.

“Diana Berrent is a fierce advocate for all those with Post- / Long-Term COVID symptoms and has taken a number of amazing actions on behalf of them. TODAY’S EPISODE will give you new information on undiscovered questions about how COVID-19 works in our bodies.”

LISTEN HERE, or wherever you get podcasts.

Andy and his Podcast team and loyal listeners made a generous donation in support of our essential efforts, Citizen Science and ongoing Patient Advocacy. We are grateful for your generous support - THANK YOU!

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COVID Live Webinar
Tues, Aug. 15: 5PM ET

Resolve to Save Lives is part of the US COVID-19 Response initiative. Join us Tuesday at 5PM ET for a LIVE Q&A, hosted by former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden, MD.

Topics: Long COVID, the Delta variant, vaccines, and the pandemic at large.

Guests: Delainne Bond, covidCAREgroup & Diana Berrent, Survivor Corps.

LIVE Link: resolvetosavelives.org/LongCOVID

Washington Post LIVE
Webinar / Podcast:

On Aug. 11, Diana Berrent sat down with Washington Post senior writer Frances Stead Sellers to discuss the growing number of Long Haulers and the mounting medical challenges they face.

WATCH HERE: wapo.st/dianaberrent

LISTEN HERE: wapo.st/podcast/dberrent

Webinar Replay:
#LongTermCOVID: In It For The Long Haul?

On Aug. 9, as part of HCAM: Health Care Awareness Month our COVID Live Webinar focused on #LongTermCOVID: Moderator:
Sari Beth Rosenberg, HCAM Education Director & Host, PBS Newshour Extra

Panelists:
Dr. Peter Hotez (Baylor College of Medicine)
Dr. Uly Labilles (COVID-19 Corps)
Dr. Kavita Patel (The Brookings Institution)
Diana Berrent (Survivor Corps)
Liza Fisher (Survivor Corps)

In Partnership With HCAM:

National Health Care Awareness Month is a month-long effort to raise awareness of the work being done to improve health care in America, with the objective to establish each August as ‘National Health Care Awareness Month’.

In The News - NYT:
Can the Vaccinated Develop Long Covid After a Breakthrough Infection?

Aug. 16, 2021 - Some breakthrough infections are leading to #LongCOVID. ‘You can’t extrapolate them to the general population, but it’s a strong signal that CDC needs to be mandating the reporting of every breakthrough case,” Ms. Berrent said, “We can’t know what we’re not counting.”

KBS Documentary

July 15, 2021 - Korea Broadcasting KBS produced a great documentary “COVID Survivors of New York”. From March 2020 to June 2021, 2.11M people in New York State were infected with COVID-19, and more than 53K died from it. Five New Yorkers living through the pain of the COVID-19 pandemic share their stories.

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