Sam Rhodehamel (He/Him)

I advocate for Long COVID awareness because it is a public health crisis affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The CDC estimates 1 in 5 Americans are living with serious health issues such as autonomic failure, neurological and vascular damage, autoimmunity, immune exhaustion, coagulation dysfunction, and viral persistence as a result of a COVID-19 infection. Our government must implement meaningful mitigations to protect us – mandating universal clean air infrastructure in public buildings like schools and hospitals and campaigning to adequately warn people of how debilitating the long term consequences of a SARS-CoV2 infection can be.