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When reflecting on her motivations for participating in COVID Recovery Corps, Danielle says it’s because she wanted to contribute to a better understanding of how to treat the disease. “I started to feel my energy come back with the first dose,” she says. Her taste and smell have almost completely returned since receiving the vaccine and the intensity of her headaches and other severe symptoms have lessened. But, Danielle says she’s getting better over time. Getting back to her pre-pandemic health has been a slow process. “I was frustrated because it has taken so long to get back to normal.”Īfter Danielle tested PCR-positive for COVID-19 again in July 2020, her doctor realized that she was likely a “COVID long-hauler” - one of the many individuals who continue to feel symptoms long after the days or weeks that represent a typical course of the disease. “It was so frightening and acute, and there was nothing I could do about it,” Danielle says. Yet, while the medication she was prescribed helped relieve her joint pain, all of Danielle’s other symptoms stubbornly remained. This prompted her to consult with a physician, who initially diagnosed her with Lyme disease. She began experiencing a host of concerning symptoms, including heart palpitations, headaches, brain fogs, and finally joint pain. “One day I was fine, then I had this crazy sensation and almost passed out,” Danielle says. (Photo courtesy of Covid Recovery Corps)ĭanielle’s taste and smell slowly returned to normal. Danielle Thor, a second-year medical student in New York City, first began experiencing COVID-like symptoms in March 2020. “I had a great immune system, but I was riding the crowded New York subway, going to class, with no mask on.” Because it was so early in the pandemic, mask guidelines had not yet been established. “I can pinpoint when and how I got it,” Danielle says. After she recovered, an antibody blood test revealed that she had been positive for the virus.
She felt feverish and started to lose her taste and smell.Īt the time, Danielle was not able to get tested, but felt certain she had experienced COVID-19. A Medical Student Battles Long-Haul Symptomsĭanielle Thor, a second-year medical student in New York City, first began experiencing COVID-like symptoms in March 2020. To learn more about what it’s like to be a part of this impactful study, we recently spoke with a few COVID Recovery Corps participants. Wendy says she wants to recruit more study participants while keeping close track of the next round of quarterly findings: “I am interested to see what the summer data looks like in terms of, do people feel like they’ve turned the corner?” While physiologic measurements are still needed to validate the data, study participants who are COVID long-haulers are reporting feeling better for some of their symptoms after receiving the Moderna, Pfizer or Johnson and Johnson vaccine - with zero reports of flare-ups. One of the promising early findings of the study relates to data researchers are collecting on the impact of the vaccine on overall recovery.
Starting in the New York metropolitan area and now expanded nationally, study participants are helping build a powerful dataset that may significantly advance science and help save lives.
“All of us are trying to figure out if a year out - or even in some cases, 14 months out - what does this actually look like?” she explains. Wendy Chung, who is leading the study, hopes between the work of COVID Recovery Corps and other COVID studies, researchers will one day have the data needed to understand more about the recovery process and improvements in treatment. Some subjects are also reporting new diagnoses since infection, including diabetes, new heart conditions, pulmonary hypertension, general hypertension - this study will also look at whether these new conditions may be at least in part, complications from COVID-19.ĭr. The vast majority of participants in the study were not hospitalized (98%), but are experiencing the long-haul symptoms that have become synonymous with COVID-like fatigue, brain fog and shortness of breath. That’s the motivation behind the Covid Recovery Corps, a research study led by Columbia University and Sage Bionetworks, with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.ĭescribed as a community-powered movement to better understand COVID-19, the study pairs people with scientists to answer key questions about how the body fights the coronavirus, whether and how often infection affords immunity, and why infection is more severe in some communities than others. The stories of people who have recovered from COVID-19, in particular, can help researchers better understand how this virus will impact our communities over time. We all have a story to tell about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on our daily lives.
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