Dianna Cowern, Physics Girl, fundraiser 2024 and other news

[Dolphin]

Dianna Cowern @thephysicsgirl

We are live-streaming a full day of Dianna’s life, sharing what it’s like for someone suffering from chronic fatigue. We will also be raising money for @OpenMedF

to support research and clinical trials for #LongCovid and #MECFS Time: Saturday, July 6th 2024, from 6:45 AM to 6:00 PM Pacific Time

The live stream will consists of:
- Live feed of Dianna all day
- Round table discussions with other YouTubers
- Q&A with the audience
- Interviews with experts in long Covid

https://twitter.com/user/status/1807501989208797494

 

[forestglip]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1807883427615814043


Will be hosted by Simone Giertz and Ian Hecox (second person is half of the Smosh channel), fellow Youtubers with 2.72M and 26.7M subscribers respectively.

Live stream will be on the Physics Girl Youtube channel.

• Witness a day in the life of Dianna who suffers from severe ME/CFS.
• Learn about the disease from a variety of experts.
• Listen to in depth discussions with Kyle (Dianna's husband) and the hosts.
• Take action to support research and treatments for ME/CFS and long COVID.

 

[SNT Gatchaman]

Youtubers with 2.72M and 26.7M subscribers respectively

That's potentially a lot of reach.

Learn about the disease from a variety of experts

Fingers crossed for the choice of experts.

 

[Kitty]

sharing what it’s like for someone suffering from chronic fatigue

At least they corrected that.

 

[forestglip]

More info from the Facebook post:



"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."

Veritasium is another very large channel with 15.8M subscribers. Braincraft has 616K.

 

[forestglip]

Live stream is live now:

 

[Dakota15]

Over $14,000 raised to OMF in the first 45 minutes alone, already over the goal of $10,000. Incredible.

 

[forestglip]

Over $14,000 raised to OMF in the first 45 minutes alone, already over the goal of $10,000. Incredible.

At about 43:40, her eyes go wide then she starts crying when he tells her:

 

[Yann04]

Already nearly upto 30’000 this is crazy!

 

[Yann04]

The goal was changed to 100k. Meanwhile we are at nearly 40k and there’s still a long time to go!

 

[Braganca]

Amazing.. about $46k.. good for them for doing this. Great way to show the disease.

 

[Yann04]

I really hope someone uses her following and reach to make educational videos about ME in the long run.

 

[Dakota15]

Clearing over the $82,000 bar now...wow

 

[forestglip]

The reach this is getting is very heartening. It's the top post on r/videos, which has 27M subscribers and is the 15th largest subreddit. Over 1,000 comments, with lots of people curious about what LC and ME/CFS are, asking for information and educational resources.

One person just commented that they just learned from this that they might have LC.

 

[Jaybee00]

Over $100,000!

 

[forestglip]

Over $100,000!

To put it in perspective, in 2023, OMF received $2.9 million in donations, $5 million in grants, plus some smaller amounts from other sources, for a total revenue of $8.3 million.

OMF financial statement

 

[alktipping]

Over 100k and rising. if most of those donations are from people suffering L C it is a testament to the growing problem that governments are trying to deny .

 

[EndME]

Cracking the $100 000 is nice. I hope this can somehow be used to continuously inform more people or somehow be used to gain momentum. The attempt at getting Jon Stewart involved looked promising.

 

[Jaybee00]

To put it in perspective, in 2023, OMF received $2.9 million in donations,

Yup but 3-4% increase in donations is good actually.

 

[forestglip]

Yup but 3-4% increase in donations is good actually.

Oh yeah definitely, every dollar helps. I was just curious about how much they were already getting.