Following a very successful entirely virtual Heart Failure Update Conference (recordings will soon be available on hfupdate.ca and heartlife.ca), our committee of cardiovascular professionals and partner organizations will be hosting the second annual National Heart Failure Awareness Week campaign scheduled May 4-10th, 2020. Modifications have been made and the campaign will be entirely virtual, given COVID-19. 
 
Toolkit materials
 
We have developed a poster and a patient-handout, as well as a toolkit for social media engagement, which we plan to launch on our website at a later time to avoid any confusion in messaging with patients. 
 
Webinars 
 
We will proceed with holding 2 webinars the week of May 4th-10th 2020, one patient-facing and one provider-facing. These will discuss coping with heart failure during COVID-19.  Details and registration information is available below.
 
Social Media

You can follow @CanHFSociety on Twitter, the hashtag #HeartFailureWeekCan, and add a Twibbon to your profile picture. Our campaign will focus on coping with heart failure during COVID-19. 
 
We encourage you to promote these virtual activities while we all maintain physical distancing to flatten the curve.
 
We look forward to continuing with certain parts of our campaign at a later date, and on an annual basis moving forward.
 
Thank you in advance for your participation and engagement.

Yours truly,

Dr. Shelley Zieroth, MD, FRCPC, FCCS, FHFSA, FESC
Associate Professor, University of Manitoba
President, Canadian Heart Failure Society