Amy C. Moore: Many like Toby have been left with long-term, debilitating effects from COVID
Amy C. Moore, Vice President of Global Engagement and Patient Partnerships at LUNGevity Foundation, shared a post on X by Tatiana Prowell adding:
“This story is crushing and brutal to read. So many, like Toby, have been left with long-term, debilitating effects from COVID. The world has decided to move on yet far too many don’t have that luxury.”
Quoting Tatiana Prowell’s post below:
“Toby was in elementary school when his soccer team won their first game ever in Jan 2022. Less than 2 wks later, he was infected with COVID19. He has never recovered, and there are tens of thousands of other kids like him. This is LongCovid.”
Source: Amy C. Moore/X and Tatiana Prowell/X
Tatiana M. Prowell is an Associate Professor of Oncology in the Division of Women’s Malignancies at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and Breast Cancer Scientific Liaison to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She was the principal architect of FDA’s policy on accelerated approval using pathological complete response as a novel regulatory endpoint in the neoadjuvant high-risk breast cancer setting, and a member of the Biden Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel Cancer Immunology Working Group. A frequent public speaker, she is a three-time recipient of FDA’s Excellence in Communication Award. She is a past Giants of Cancer Care Award finalist, the recipient of the 2019 John and Samuel Bard Medal in Science or Medicine, and the recipient of a 2020 Webby Special Achievement Award for her effective use of social media during the pandemic. A passionate medical educator and mentor, she was Chair of the 2020 ASCO Annual Meeting Education Committee.