Thread by @leorahorwitzmd

Took a Twitter break for several months to help get @NIH #RecoverCOVID up and running to study #LongCovid (AKA #PASC). Thrilled to report @UTHealthSA @UHHospitals have enrolled our first 7 participants! Congrats to them and cast of 1000s working night and day to kick it off. /1

#RecoverCOVID will follow >17K adults, >20K kids across nation + PR for 4 yrs to learn what #LongCovid looks like, how long it lasts, what causes it/increases risk, and, ultimately, what makes it better. Will also include autopsy data and electronic health records of millions. /2

You can find out more about it here recovercovid.org and can sign up to be told more about enrollment opportunities. /3

This is the largest study I have ever seen stood up in such a short time. Credit goes to my co-PIs @nyulangone; Data Core @MassGenBrigham, Biorepository @MayoClinic; hundreds of investigators including @DrDimpyShah, @RachelPatzerPhD, @rhessmd (why are no others on Twitter?) /4

@nih_nhlbi & other @NIH staff, and especially to the patients and advocates who have provided input, materially changing the study, including @DrMarjorieRobe1 @chiluvs1 @ahandvanish @K_Bishof @mhornig & so many more not on Twitter /5

Here are some of the people who need to start using Twitter! Stuart Katz, @abtroxel @nyulangone; Thomas Patterson, Barbara Taylor @UTHealthSA; Grace McComsey, Nora Singer @UHhospitals; Andrea Foulkes, Beth Karlson, Shawn Murphy, Natalie Boutin @MassGenBrigham /6

Mine Cicek, Stephen Thibodeau, Thomas Flotte @MayoClinic

@abtroxel @nyulangone @UTHealthSA @UHhospitals @MassGenBrigham Wait, I was wrong! Here are some of them: @DrBarbaraTaylor @doctorfungus @MarkGoldbergMD