COVID-19 is affecting many different parts of our lives. Even if we don’t get sick, it may be impacting our physical and mental health. Learning more about this is important for researchers. It could help them better understand COVID-19. That’s why we’re inviting you to take part in a survey about how the pandemic is affecting you and those around you. It’s called the COVID-19 Participant Experience survey. Or COPE for short. The survey asks questions about how you’re doing and feeling. It also asks about how COVID-19 may be affecting your physical and mental health, your daily life, and your community.

The COPE survey is recurring and will be available each month through February 2021. This means you can take it again and again. We hope you will take this survey, but it is not required. Your answers may help researchers learn how our lives are affected over time. Each time you take the survey, your answers will matter, whether they are the same or have changed.

You can take the survey by logging into your All of Us account.

Researchers are eager to learn more about when COVID-19 arrived in the United States, and how it has spread. As one of the largest and most diverse research resources available, All of Us can help them answer those questions. We will be testing stored participant blood samples to look for antibodies against the virus that causes COVID-19. Antibodies may tell us if a person has been exposed to this virus in the past. We will test stored samples from the participants who joined most recently. Participants whose samples we are testing do not need to do anything, as we will be testing their stored blood samples.

We will share what we learn from this research with all of our participants. We expect to be able to tell you what we learn from the study overall. To be clear, we plan to let you know in general what we find; we do not plan at this time to give individual participants their own results. This is because we need to learn more about the accuracy of the results for diverse groups and what the results mean for individuals.

COVID-19 is caused by one strain of coronavirus, but there are many types of coronaviruses. Scientists are still learning whether having antibodies means you have been exposed to this new strain or a different one in the past. (Some common colds are caused by viruses related to this new coronavirus.) Scientists also don’t know yet if having antibodies protects you from developing COVID-19 in the future.

During a pandemic, it is critical to get good information quickly. In the All of Us Research Program, more than 200,000 participants have shared EHR data. This information tells us so much about your health. It may also tell us if you were diagnosed with COVID-19 or have had symptoms.

COVID-19 affects people very differently. We want to help researchers understand why that is. EHR information can show patterns across different people. This may help explain why some people have certain symptoms and others don’t.

We are working to make sure that EHR information is easy for researchers to use as quickly as possible. As always, your privacy is our top priority. We will remove information that may identify you before we let researchers use the data.