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Recommended by Meg Sweeney © 2020 Press Ganey Associates LLCIn a Press Ganey analysis of 350,000 comments from ED and medical practice patients between January 1 and March 20, 2020, the number of comments mentioning COVID-19 has grown at an average rate of 134% each week from early February through mid-March.To identify emerging themes and provide insights and recommendations to provider organizations, we isolated and analyzed the nearly 12,000 COVID-19-related comments, generating approximately 27,000 insights and leading to the following observations

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark, MD. Phd.

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark, MD. Phd. : Summary of Our Work For many years, up to 25 years for some, members of the COVID Human Genetic Effort have studied the human genetic basis of life-threatening diseases striking previously healthy human beings in the course of primary infection by a variety of viruses, bacteria, fungi, or parasites. In particular, we and others have identified monogenic inborn errors of immunity (IEI) that selectively underlie life-threatening or lethal viral diseases in previously healthy children or adults, including various severe diseases caused by Epstein-Barr virus, herpes simplex virus encephalitis, varicella zoster virus encephalitis, fulminant hepatitis due to hepatitis A virus, lethal primary infection by cytomegalovirus, severe pneumonitis due to influenza virus or rhinovirus, beta-papillomavirus-driven skin cancer, human herpes virus 8-driven Kaposi sarcoma, and others (see references below).

Recommended by Meg Sweeney: "Abstract SARS-CoV-2 infection displays immense inter-individual clinical variability, ranging from silent infection to lethal disease. The role of human genetics in determining clinical response to the virus remains unclear. Studies of outliers - individuals remaining uninfected despite viral exposure and healthy young patients with life-threatening disease - presents a unique opportunity to reveal human genetic determinants of infection and disease."

Recommended by Dr. Michael Kurisu D.O.

Suggested by Ozzie Gontang, "A bed time story of how it started, and why hindsight's 2020."

Recommended by Tyler Orion, "It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I'm not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope can also be predicted. We have robust data from the outbreaks in China and Italy, that shows the backside of the mortality curve declines slowly, with deaths persisting for months. Assuming we have just crested in deaths at 70k, it is possible that we lose another 70,000 people over the next 6 weeks as we come off that peak. That's what's going to happen with a lockdown. "

Erin Bromage: I am a Comparative Immunologist and Professor of Biology (specializing in Immunology) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. I balance Teaching, Research, and Public Service (that is, when we are allowed in our labs)."

"This pandemic has been studied more intensely in a shorter amount of time than any other human event. Our globalized world has rapidly generated and shared a vast amount of information about it. It is inevitable that there will be bad as well as good data in that mix. These massive, decentralized, and crowd-sourced data can reliably be converted to life-saving knowledge if tempered by expertise, transparency, rigor, and collaboration. When making your own decisions, read closely, trust carefully, and when in doubt, look to the experts."

Hans Rosling - Gap Minder - 2019 Iife Expectancy World Regions

I found Posit Science and BrainHQ thanks to a suggestion from Dr. Kurisu. He recommended Norman Doige's books, The Brain That Changes Itself; Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science and The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity. One of the case studies is about Dr. Michael Merzenich, a research who was vilified by the medical establishment for investigating neuroplasticity. Great story. Merzenich is a founder of PositScience and BrainHQ.

Recommended by Tyler Orion: "People who think they've been exposed to the novel coronavirus are clamoring for antibody tests - blood screens that can detect who has previously been infected and, the hope is, signal who is protected from another case of Covid-19."

"A vaccine authorized in December for use in India may help solve one of the most vexing problems in global public health: How to supply lower-income countries with a COVID-19 vaccine that is safe, effective and affordable. The vaccine is called CORBEVAX. It uses old but proven vaccine technology and can be manufactured far more easily than most, if not all, of the COVID-19 vaccines in use today."

Advances in wearable device and home blood pressure monitoring technology offer promising opportunities to characterise population health and to improve understanding of cardiovascular disease risk. These devices also allow for remote longitudinal patient monitoring, increased engagement and health literacy, and delivery of personalised behavioural interventions all while reducing overall health-care costs.1 Various health systems and start-ups seek to combine these data with clinical information from the electronic medical record, and several insurance companies are already trying to incentivise the uptake of wearable devices.2

"The MIPACT study is a prospective cohort study designed to integrate multiple sources of digital data to better understand clinical phenotypes. Participants were recruited from Michigan Medicine and the surrounding communities and provided with an Apple Watch series 3 or 4 and an Omron Evolv Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor. Participants consented to provide access to parts of their electronic medical record and to provide a blood sample for laboratory and genetic analyses. Participants were asked to perform regular tasks including guided breathing, BP monitoring, and quarterly survey completion. The study was funded in part by Apple, Inc and performed in partnership with Michigan Medicine."

"This app contains physiologic and activity data for nearly 7,000 MIPACT study participants from the University of Michigan. To protect patient anonymity, data will only be displayed when 10 or more study participants have the selected combination of attributes. Data is available from the first 90-days of study participation and may be updated at a later date. Visit our MIPACT study website for more information."

NEW SONG BY GURU SHABAD SINGH FOR CHARITY, TO BUILD A SAT NAM RASAYAN SCHOOL IN CHIAPAS MEXICO. In honor of his beloved, departed Hari Das, Guru Shabad Singh invites you to contribute to creating a global, multi-cultural, multi-modality healing center space for students and practitioners in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.  ( People from around the world will come to experience and train in multiple healing modalities, including Sat Nam Rasayan, in which Hari Das was a dedicated and devoted senior teacher.( ( The Center is in its nascent stage, with initial plans coming together for the space and the programming. Your donation is a precious chance to honor Hari Das' legacy as a healer of the planet. ( To learn more about Sat Nam Rasayan please visit: www.satnamrasayan.it

"Can Nonprofits Accept Cryptocurrencies as Donations? Generally, it is lawful for a nonprofit to accept a donation in the form of a cryptocurrency. However, this does not necessarily mean that it would be prudent for all nonprofits to do so. First, nonprofits must understand how cryptocurrency gifts work and what risks may be involved with taking and holding onto cryptocurrency."

Recommended"Stanford University researchers are recruiting ME/CFS, Chronic Lyme, and Long COVID patients for a study to better understand symptom flares such as post-exertional malaise (PEM), or "crashes"."

"An FDA advisory panel recommended emergency use authorization (EUA) of a booster dose of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for adults ages 65 and older, as well as for younger adults with high-risk medical conditions or at high risk of occupational or institutional exposure."