Dr. David Hanscom is an Orthopedic surgeon and the author of “DO YOU REALLY NEED SPINE SURGERY?” and of “Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain” A survivor of COVID-19 himself, Dr. Hanscom has been working with about 20 other professionals such as distinguished University Scientist and professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Dr. Stephen Porges and David R Clawson, MD–Physical Medicine and Rehab. They are looking at inflammation and chronic disease through the lens of the Polyvagal Theory. Together they have come up with some new possibilities for addressing COVID-19.