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Dianna Cowern, who ran the Physics Girl Youtube channel before getting severe long COVID a couple years ago, is going to do a 12 hour live stream to show what her day is like, and she'll be fundraising for Open Medicine Foundation.
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Dianna Cowern (Physics Girl) all day live stream fundraiser on 6 July 2024
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Dakota15
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Adding on quickly here
From The Sick Times newsletter:
"This Saturday (July 6th), science video creator Dianna Cowern is holding a fundraiser for the Open Medicine Foundation, a non-profit group researching effective treatments and diagnostic markers for ME/CFS, Long Covid, and related diseases. The event will be a livestream on Cowern’s YouTube channel from 9:45 AM to 9:00 PM EST. It will feature a live feed of Cowern — who lives with ME/CFS and Long Covid — round tables with other YouTubers, a Q&A, and presentations by Long Covid experts.
"Pre-recorded interviews from experts —
- Linda Tannenbaum, founder and CEO of the Open Medicine Foundation.
Interviewed by Derek Muller from Veritasium.
- Dr. David Kaufman, an ME/CFS specialist.
Interviewed by Vanessa Hill from
BrainCraft.
- Dr. Raven Baxter, a science communicator.
Interviewed by Kyle Kitzmiller.
- Dr. David Putrino, director of rehabilitation innovation for MT. Selenite Health
Systems.
Interviewed by Kyle Kitzmiller.”
- Live stream will be on the Physics Girl Youtube channel, that has over 3.27M subscribers
- Will be hosted by Simone Giertz and Ian Hecox, fellow Youtubers with 2.72M and 26.7M subscribers respectively
- Veritasium is another very large channel with 15.8M subscribers. Braincraft has 616K
From The Sick Times newsletter:
"This Saturday (July 6th), science video creator Dianna Cowern is holding a fundraiser for the Open Medicine Foundation, a non-profit group researching effective treatments and diagnostic markers for ME/CFS, Long Covid, and related diseases. The event will be a livestream on Cowern’s YouTube channel from 9:45 AM to 9:00 PM EST. It will feature a live feed of Cowern — who lives with ME/CFS and Long Covid — round tables with other YouTubers, a Q&A, and presentations by Long Covid experts.
"Pre-recorded interviews from experts —
- Linda Tannenbaum, founder and CEO of the Open Medicine Foundation.
Interviewed by Derek Muller from Veritasium.
- Dr. David Kaufman, an ME/CFS specialist.
Interviewed by Vanessa Hill from
BrainCraft.
- Dr. Raven Baxter, a science communicator.
Interviewed by Kyle Kitzmiller.
- Dr. David Putrino, director of rehabilitation innovation for MT. Selenite Health
Systems.
Interviewed by Kyle Kitzmiller.”
- Live stream will be on the Physics Girl Youtube channel, that has over 3.27M subscribers
- Will be hosted by Simone Giertz and Ian Hecox, fellow Youtubers with 2.72M and 26.7M subscribers respectively
- Veritasium is another very large channel with 15.8M subscribers. Braincraft has 616K
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The stream is live now:
Dakota15
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Clearing over the $82,000 bar now with funds raised to OMF....wow
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This reached a lot of people outside our community and raised a tonne of donations, clearly past $100,000. Really was an impressive event.