Patrick Quinn (ALS activist)
Patrick Quinn was an American amyotrophic lateral sclerosis activist. He helped generate awareness and raise more than US$220m for medical research through the Ice Bucket Challenge. Quinn died on November 22, 2020, at the St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, New York.
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Patrick Quinn was an American amyotrophic lateral sclerosis activist. He helped generate awareness and raise more than US$220m for medical research through the Ice Bucket Challenge, a viral social media campaign. Quinn died on November 22, 2020, at the St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, New York, after suffering from ALS for seven years. He was diagnosed with the disease on March 8, 2013, a month after his 30th birthday.
Along with fellow ALS activist and captain of the Boston College baseball team, Peter Frates, Quinn helped draw attention to ALS by co-creating the Ice bucket challenge. The challenge went viral in 2014, when celebrities and common people all across the world filmed short-form videos of themselves dumping buckets of ice water on their heads.
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