Terri Hough, MD, MS

Infection with SARS-CoV2 is life threatening and, for many survivors of COVID-19, life altering. There remain important knowledge gaps surrounding the post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV2. This research project will leverage the NHLBI PETAL Network's longitudinal cohort study of over 1300 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 across the United States (entitled BLUE CORAL) to study the epidemiology, patient and family experience, and health care delivery over the first year after hospital discharge. We will investigate trajectories of recovery, and factors associated with better or poorer outcomes, including approaches to caring for patients with "long COVID." We will use qualitative and quantitative methods, including interviews, surveys, objective functional testing, and biospecimen collection, to conduct a rich investigation of Recovery after COVID-19 Hospitalization (REACH).