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COVID Immune Response Study

Contribute to COVID-19 research from home

If you've tested positive for COVID-19, you can help researchers learn more about the virus.

Enrollment closed

Must be 18 years or older

Compensation provided

Must have tested positive for COVID-19 within 4 days of testing visit


Working together to advance research for COVID-19.

Learn more about Project Baseline

Verily Life Sciences
Janssen (Johnson & Johnson)

Participating in the COVID-19 Immune Response Study

Because COVID-19 affects billions of people worldwide from different backgrounds and health statuses, we'll need a number of treatments and vaccines to meet everyone's needs.

While researchers have made significant progress in better understanding the coronavirus, we need to know more about how it affects the immune system immediately after someone tests positive. The COVID-19 Immune Response Study is focused on collecting information on how the body reacts to COVID-19.

This study does not involve testing an investigational drug or device.


What's involved

Login to your account online

This will take up to 3 min

Site team member contacts you

Site team member will tell you more about the study

Consent

Sign an electronic consent for the study and answer eligibility questions

Home and virtual visits

Participate in 3 home visits and 1 virtual visit where a healthcare professional will collect a blood sample and nose swab. Your medical records will be consolidated through PicnicHealth and you will have full access to these records to share with your current healthcare provider.

Fill out a COVID-19 symptom tracker on the Baseline Member Portal

Once daily for the duration of the active part of the study for one month. The full study will take about 2 years, during which researchers will review your health records and information gathered in the active part of the study.


Find out if the COVID-19 Immune Response Study is a good fit for you

What you'll receive

In addition to contributing to COVID-19 research, you'll receive:

Up to $375 for your time

Dedicated study team to answer questions throughout the study

Exclusive content and resources as part of the Project Baseline community

Access to all your medical records in one place through a complimentary PicnicHealth account

COVID-19 Immune Response Study

Study FAQs

Verily Life Sciences, LLC is the Sponsor of this study. Verily is working with Janssen Research & Development LLC, who is paying to conduct this study.

Project Baseline is an initiative to make it easy and engaging for people to contribute to the map of human health and participate in clinical research.

The active part of the study will last about 4 weeks. The full study is about 2 years long. During this time, researchers will review your health records and information gathered in the active part of the study to understand how health changes over time.

An at-home (or remote) clinical study is one in which you can fully participate from the comfort of your home. This means that there is no need for you to visit a doctor’s office, lab or hospital.

As a participant, you receive:

  • Up to $375 for your time
  • Dedicated study team  to answer questions throughout the study
  • Exclusive content and resources as part of the Project Baseline community
  • Access to all your medical records in one place through a complimentary PicnicHealth account

Project Baseline was founded by Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet focused on life sciences and healthcare and is a sister company to Google.

No, authenticating your account and authorizing us to use service providers does not authorize us to link your data with Google account data. We do not combine this data with an individual's Google account, and were we to ever wish to do so, individuals would need to provide separate and explicit consent.

No. We will not share any information with your insurance or medical providers without your consent. You and your doctor will continue to make decisions about your care.

Verily Life Sciences LLC will analyze and use the information they receive for research and product development purposes. If necessary for these purposes, they may communicate information to people and companies with whom Verily Life Sciences LLC works, institutional review boards (IRBs), ethics committees (ECs), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) agencies, and other regulatory agencies. Once your information has been disclosed to the organizations listed, it may be subject to re-disclosure and no longer subject to protection by state and federal privacy laws.

Representatives from government agencies, including the FDA, IRB, and EC, and Verily Life Sciences LLC or its agents, may also need access to your study records for the purpose of checking data collected for the study.

We are committed to maintaining high privacy standards and keeping your data safe. Project Baseline follows federal and state regulations governing the collection and use of an individual's data, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Data is stored in advanced systems with world class  security protocols.

As part of this study, you will share electronic health records (EHR) with researchers. Because health records are often fragmented across different healthcare providers, these records will be gathered for you by PicnicHealth.

PicnicHealth is a record-retrieval service that will reach out to your doctors and consolidate your information. You will have full access to these records to share with your current healthcare provider.

PicnicHealth is a record-retrieval service that will reach out to your doctors and consolidate your lifetime medical information. You will receive a free PicnicHealth account and have full access to these digital records to share with your current healthcare provider.