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Survivor Corps

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Survivor Corps is a large American grassroots movement and community that describes itself as "the Peace Corps of the COVID Generation". Using their collective power, Survivor Corps aims to stem the COVID-19 pandemic and assist in the recovery within the United States.[1]

Aims

[2]

Services

Notable people

Patrons

Medical advisors

  • Dr. David J Shulkin, MD
Special Advisor, 9th Secretary, Veterans Affairs; Former Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health 
  • Dr. Wendy Chung, MD, PhD
Chief, Clinical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Kennedy Family Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, and Medical Director, Columbia Genetic Counselling Graduate Program
  • Dr. Sudeb Dalai, MD, PhD
Senior Medical Director, Adaptive Biotechnologies, Infectious Disease  / Clinical Professor, Stanford University
  • Dr. Vin Gupta, MD, MPA
Critical Care Pulmonologist; Major, 446th Air Force Reserve Medical Squadron; Aerospace Physician, IHME: Institute of Health Metrics & Evaluation
  • Dr. Emma Guttman, MD, PhD
Vice Chair, Research, Dept of Dermatology, Director, Center for Excellence in Eczema, Director, Laboratory of Inflammatory Skin Diseases
  • Dr. Laurie G. Jacobs, MD
Geriatrician; Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Former Board Chair, American Geriatrics Society
  • Dr. Michael Joyner, MD
Mayo Clinic; Principal Investigator, NIH; Principal Investigator, Expanded Access to Convalescent Plasma; Vice Chair (Research) Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine,Mayo Clinic
  • Dr. Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM
Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Director, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation.
  • Dr. William W. Li, MD
Research Scientist & Vascular Biologist, Founder & Medical Director, Angiogenesis Foundation; Author of Eat to Beat Disease
  • Dr. Kavita Patel, MD, MSHS
Internal Medicine, Mary's Center, Nonresident Fellow, The Brookings Institution; Former Director of Policy, White House
  • Dr. Richard B. Rosen, MD, DSc
Vice Chair, Ophthalmology Research, Surgeon Director & Retinal Service Chief, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
  • Dr. Peter Staats, MD, MBA
Founder, Johns Hopkins Blaustein Pain Center; Interventional Pain Management Physician.[4]

Research/Notable studies

  • Mar 27, 2021, COVID-19 Survivors’ Reports of the Timing, Duration, and Health Impacts of Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) Infection[5] (Full text)
  • Nov 12, 2020, The Immunology of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children with COVID-19[6] - (Full text)
  • Apr 20, 2021, Fatigue in critical care survivors: multidisciplinary and self-management strategies[7] - (Full text)
  • May 14, 2021, Convalescent plasma in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised controlled, open-label, platform trial[8] - (Full text)
  • May 19, 2021, Diverse functional autoantibodies in patients with COVID-19[9] - (Full text)
  • May 25, 2021, Use of Convalescent Plasma in COVID-19 Patients with Immunosuppression[10] - (Full text)
  • June 25, 2021, Safety and Immunogenicity Report from the Com-COV Study – with An Adenoviral Vectored and mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine (pre-print)[11] - (Abstract) - pre-print

History

Diana Berrent became an advocate and activist after becoming one of the first people in her area to contract COVID-19.

While in isolation with COVID-19, Diana launched Survivor Corps, a grassroots organization aiming to support people who had tested positive for COVID-19 and to participate in related medical and scientific research.[1]

Funding

Survivor Corps is a non-profit project of Multiplier.[12]

Interviews and articles

Online presence

See also

Learn more

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Story". Survivor Corps. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Mission". Survivor Corps. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Leadership". Survivor Corps. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Medical Advisory Board". Survivor Corps. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  5. ↑ Lambert, Natalie; Corps, Survivor; El-Azab, Sarah A.; Ramrakhiani, Nathan S.; Barisano, Anthony; Yu, Lu; Taylor, Kaitlyn; Esperanca, Alvaro; Downs, Charles A. (March 27, 2021). "COVID-19 Survivors' Reports of the Timing, Duration, and Health Impacts of Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) Infection". medRxiv: 2021.03.22.21254026. doi:10.1101/2021.03.22.21254026.
  6. ↑ "The Immunology of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children with COVID-19". Cell. 183 (4): 968–981.e7. November 12, 2020. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.016. ISSN 0092-8674.
  7. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.15474
  8. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00897-7
  9. ↑ Wang, Eric Y.; Mao, Tianyang; Klein, Jon; Dai, Yile; Huck, John D.; Jaycox, Jillian R.; Liu, Feimei; Zhou, Ting; Israelow, Benjamin (July 2021). "Diverse functional autoantibodies in patients with COVID-19". Nature. 595 (7866): 283–288. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03631-y. ISSN 1476-4687.
  10. ↑ Senefeld, Jonathon W.; Klassen, Stephen A.; Ford, Shane K.; Senese, Katherine A.; Wiggins, Chad C.; Bostrom, Bruce C.; Thompson, Michael A.; Baker, Sarah E.; Nicholson, Wayne T. (June 1, 2021). "Use of convalescent plasma in COVID‐19 patients with immunosuppression". Transfusion. doi:10.1111/trf.16525. ISSN 0041-1132. PMC 8242637. PMID 34036587.
  11. ↑ Liu, Xinxue; Shaw, Robert H.; Stuart, Arabella SV; Greenland, Melanie; Dinesh, Tanya; Provstgaard-Morys, Samuel; Clutterbuck, Elizabeth; Ramasamy, Maheshi N.; Aley, Parvinder K. (June 25, 2021). "Safety and Immunogenicity Report from the Com-COV Study – a Single-Blind Randomised Non-Inferiority Trial Comparing Heterologous And Homologous Prime-Boost Schedules with An Adenoviral Vectored and mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine". Pre-prints with The Lancet. Rochester, NY – via SSRN.
  12. ↑ "Survivor Corps". Multiplier. June 22, 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
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