Channeling COVID Outrage (with Diana Berrent)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
Lemonada Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
One mom rages against COVID with Andy this week: Survivor Corps founder Diana Berrent. Diana is a fierce advocate for those with remaining COVID symptoms and she has taken a number of amazing actions on behalf of them. This episode will grip you, speak to your heart, steel your spine, and give you some brand new information on some undiscovered questions about how COVID-19 works in our bodies.
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Check out these resources from today’s episode:
- Learn more about Survivor Corps: https://www.survivorcorps.com/
- Read about Dr. Akiko Iwasaki’s study of the vaccines’ effects on COVID long haulers: https://news.yale.edu/2021/05/10/study-probes-vaccines-effects-people-long-covid
- Check out this update on 12-year-old Addison Adams: https://www.weau.com/2021/08/12/girl-12-slowly-sees-relief-after-battling-10-months-long-hauler-covid-19-symptoms/
- Here’s the NIH’s announcement of the initiative to study long COVID: https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-launches-new-initiative-study-long-covid
- Read the paper that Survivor Corps and Dr. Harland Krumholz published about breakthrough cases and long COVID: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.23.21261030v1
- Learn more about monoclonal antibody therapies: www.gotcovid.org
- Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
- Order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165
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| 0:00.0 | It's CVS Health, they know the women's physical, mental, and sexual health matters. |
| 0:05.0 | That's why they're offering new women's health services available nationwide seven days a week. |
| 0:09.0 | From heart health, blood pressure, and cholesterol screenings available at miniclinic locations, |
| 0:14.0 | to virtual birth control consultations and visits with a board certified provider, |
| 0:18.0 | women's health is it an afterthought. It matters. |
| 0:21.0 | It's CVS Health. Health here happens together. Learn more at CVSHealth.com. |
| 0:27.0 | Lemonada. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to the bubble. You've got another incredible discussion today. Just incredible. I'm your host, Andy Slavitt. |
| 1:01.0 | The next handful of episodes are just frankly ridiculous in some of the people and content and information coming your way. |
| 1:11.0 | We are so fortunate to have the people that are coming on the show beginning to day with Diana Barrett. |
| 1:18.0 | She's the founder of an organization called Survivor Corps, which has become the patient advocacy voice for people with COVID. |
| 1:29.0 | It's a missing voice. It's a missing piece. We see a lot of science. We see a lot of government. |
| 1:36.0 | We see a lot of business. We see a lot of opinions. But things don't happen without advocacy. |
| 1:41.0 | We would not have the cures for cancer and Alzheimer's and other things being worked on in the research funding if it wasn't for advocacy. |
| 1:48.0 | We wouldn't have the Affordable Care Act preserved if it wasn't for advocacy. And as you will hear in a minute, |
| 1:55.0 | COVID-19 has found a voice. It's a unique voice. It's a needed voice. |
| 2:00.0 | In this episode, I'm going to warn you. You will hear anger. You will hear passion. You will hear pleading. |
| 2:10.0 | But what you won't hear is hopelessness. You won't hear it quit. And you won't hear much compromise. |
| 2:19.0 | You will hear an incredibly assertive voice. I think she would describe it as the voice of a mom advocate who has basically taught herself incredibly. |
| 2:33.0 | So many of the things there is to know about COVID and living with COVID. And it reflects not just for people who have had COVID and living with COVID, but it is a conversation that reflects so broadly on all of us. |
| 2:45.0 | And when it invites you not to listen for the data, because I think the data and information that we talk about is still developing. |
| 2:57.0 | And it's done a quite a nice job informing herself. But some of the precise data, as she will tell you, which still we're still learning about. |
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