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A daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts - hosted by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles, a historian of disasters at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea.
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Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Teresa Tindle Akintonwa is an education specialist, patient advocacy blogger, and founder of the Black Covid-19 Survivors Support group, an online community aimed at helping African-Americans overcome the misinformation, exclusion, and trauma of having Covid. Teresa herself contracted Covid-19 early in the pandemic back in February 2020 and has been contending with the physical and cognitive impact ever since.
Lisa McCorkell is a co-founder and patient-researcher with Patient-Led Research Collaborative, a group of people with Long COVID who conducted the first and most comprehensive research on Long COVID. As a result of her research with PLRC, she has testified to Congress, presented to the White House COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, and been featured in The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. In her day job, she is a policy analyst at the California Department of Social Services. She received a Masters in Public Policy from University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles.
Today I welcome Long COVID activists Teresa Tindle Akintonwa and Lisa McCorkell to #COVIDCalls
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