Jefferson Emergency Medicine physician Dr. Anna Marie Chang became sick with the coronavirus in mid-March 2020. In this episode, she tells the story of her symptoms worsening, the isolation of the hospital room as a patient, and using her experience to rally efforts toward convalescent plasma donation.

Check out more content about the coronavirus on The Health Nexus, like a patient’s guide to telemedicine during the pandemic and information about plasma donations from coronavirus survivors at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Blood Donor Center.

Also, read the article that goes in-depth with Dr. Chang about her experience.