COVID-19: What the Lymphoma Community Needs to Know

I want to make everyone aware of an online event that's happening tomorrow (Thursday, March 19, at 1:00pm Eastern Daylight Time).

It's called "Coronavirus and What the Lymphoma Community Needs to Know," and it is sponsored by the Lymphoma Research Foundation.

Click on the link above for more information. It's free, but registration is required. After you register, you'll get instructions on how to sign in to the event.

Here's the description from the site:

Program Overview:
•   Introductions and LRF Overview
•   COVID-19 and What the Lymphoma Community Needs to Know
•   LRF’s Support Services and Resources Overview
•   Questions for Dr. John P. Leonard

The wellbeing of people with lymphoma and their caregivers is the top priority of the Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF). People with cancer, who are in active cancer treatment or have been previously been treated for cancer, older patients, and people with other serious chronic medical conditions, may be at higher risk should they contract the coronavirus (also called COVID-19).  As a member of the LRF’s Scientific Advisory Board, Dr. John P. Leonard from Weill Cornell Medicine will address what people with lymphoma should know about the virus.

I can't tell you for certain how valuable this will be. But I do know that the Lymphoma Research Foundation is certainly one of the most reputable sources of information about Lymphoma that is out there. (I went to one of their events a few weeks ago, you might remember.)

And their guest, Dr. John Leonard, who will be taking questions, is a Lymphoma Rock Star, one of the world's leading lymphoma experts. (He did the Cancer Cast podcast that I linked to a few weeks ago.) If anyone knows how COVID-19 will affect lymphoma patients, it will be him.

So if you have the opportunity to listen in, go to the link and register. I'm going to try to listen in, too, and report back on what I hear.

If you listen  in and you find something helpful, please share it in the comments.

I hope this is helpful to some of you.

Take care of yourselves.