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This week I discuss the “hold” on the Astrazeneca Oxford SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, AZD1222, Phase 3 vaccine trial. History is replete with learning opportunities and thankfully science is always trying to use these insights for their benefit of the advancement of our understanding. Case in point we have learned much about vaccine safety and how-to bring vaccines […]
This week I explore the success of one country that ranks second in the world for their response to COVID19. Can you guess who it is? They spend 2.4% of their GDP on health or approximately $72 per person They have 6 doctors per 100,000 people They have around 14,000 cases of COVID19 infection 284 […]
The challenge of the ever-changing landscape we live in is planning. This is especially true in the COVID19 era as we continue to chase information that is moving in real-time and make judgments and decisions based on the best available data, today From a business, college, and school planning standpoint how do you approach this […]
Greetings Professor This week I am talking to Dr. Kathleen Carley, Ph.D., Professor at Carnegie Mellon University – School of Computer Science – Institute for Software Research & CEO of Netanomics. She heads up the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) that focuses on combatting disinformation online. In this recent feature on NPR: Nearly Half […]
Is There an End! Is there light at the end of the COVID19 tunnel – yes there is but it can be hard to see it as time drags on. How do we get our businesses and schools back to some semblance of our previous experience and open safely? Once again learning from other […]
The History The term “Snack Oil Salesman” has long been used and associated with seedy profiteers who sell fake wares to an unsuspecting public, and that is the way I use the term here (ironically the origins were at odds with this). But the term is relatively well understood as a metaphor for individuals who […]
In this age of misinformation, it is important to add a balance to the ongoing onslaught of attempts by some to de-rail our society and do damage to the people, the country, and it’s ideals. The latest comes from some well-known quacks and bad actors like Dan Erikson (we’ve met him before for the widely […]
Vaccines Work and Twice Over This week I am talking to Dr. Richard Pan, MD, MPH, (@DrPanMD) a pediatrician and California State Senator. He has been a leading advocate of increasing the health of everyone and raising California’s vaccination rates, sadly making him a target for online harassment and in-person assaults by conspiracy theorists and […]
Is COVID19 Mutating This week I am talking about the virus mutation and the concern this raises about our potential to produce a vaccine that offers immunity that lasts. Viruses change over time and each group of viruses and individuals within groups have different rates. Our understanding of SARS-CoV-2 suggests it does change and likely […]
COVID19 Spread by Droplet This week Fred Goldstein and I discuss aerosolization, droplets, and what the latest science is telling us (you can read more about the study: Persistence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Aerosol Suspensions). The impact of this is significant on how we respond to this crisis, what behaviors to […]
So how do you assess testing strategies for your business, your employees, customers, and vendors? This week I am updating the current guidance on testing strategies and thinking about what kind of tests are available, virus and antibody testing and who and when you should be thinking about testing. The answer is complicated and varies […]
Repeated COVID19 Testing This week I dive into a study looking at testing for COVID19 in a correctional facility in Louisiana and what repeated testing can show us We remain challenged with limited testing capability and delays in reporting. Until such time as we have widespread available testing, our strategy will have to be guided […]
This week I discuss reopening in the context of the recent antibody testing and immunity passports. If you are tested and found to have Antibodies to COVID19 what does that mean for you and your risk of getting the disease. And, are there other possible causes of COVID19? No matter what the guidance remains the […]
Who Can Spread COVID19 As I watched the news last night it was clear to me the announcement being covered from WHO was a big deal. What the news coverage stated was that Asymptomatic carriers were not spreading COVID19 disease. Wow. That’s a big deal because if that is true then our path to preventing […]
This week I discuss Blood Groups and the potential impact this may have on COVID19 disease. In a recently pre-published paper, that added further evidence to 2 other papers (Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility and Testing the association between blood type and COVID-19 infection, intubation, and death) that have shown […]
This week I am talking to Kim Nilsson, CEO of Pivigo (@Pivigo) and an Astrophysicist. Kim is on her second of perhaps multiple careers that began looking at the stars and is currently looking at data. After getting her PhD she decided to get an MBA and like other guests on this show discovered the […]
This week I discuss the potential for a second wave of infection and what that could mean for businesses trying to re-open and how your testing strategy can contribute to the opening without creating a second wave. Should you do clinical screening, viral or antibody testing, and which strategies should be applied. One of the […]
Screening for Businesses This week I discuss the challenges of screening and how companies and businesses need to approach this area. How you screen, who you screen and what screening are complex issues that are dependent on your specific business its risk profile, your employee risk profiles and of course what the latest science is on the virus There […]
Celebrating a Life with Zoom I attended a Zoom Celebration of Life of a friend who died recently and while it was imperfect it was an adaptation necessary in the current circumstances, we find ourselves in especially as Funerals and weddings which are one of several examples of activities that are higher risk gatherings for […]
This week I am talking to Amy Abernethy, MD, Ph.D. (@DrAbernethyFDA) the Principal Deputy Commissioner & Acting CIO for the FDA (@US_FDA). We had talked in January at CES about the forthcoming meeting focused on the FDA’s Technology Modernization Action Plan (outline here) but as a result of the COVID19 pandemic, the meeting was postponed to Jun 30 (details […]
Pandemic Director At no time has the human race been more need of leadership with a steady hand at the tiller than now. Except for a few small pockets of people, everyone knows at this point we are facing an existential threat to the world If you are familiar with the space program and […]
Navigating Mental Health This week I am talking to Ekaterina Malievskaia MD MScPH, Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder of COMPASS Pathways (Navigating Mental Health Pathways). Ekaterina is an entrepreneur dedicated to bringing about positive change in society with a particular focus on health and wellbeing and driven to address the challenge of access to brain health […]
Updated Wednesday, Nov 13, 2020 This resource was first created by me in response to what I saw as growing demand for reliable information. I continue to update the page with new links and resources keeping up with the rapidly changing knowledge we have on the SARS-CoV-2 infection and the disease COVID19. I will continue […]
Coronavirus The statistics are jarring – as of the latest update from WHO of 77,794 confirmed (599 new) cases globally with the majority coming from China with 2,348 deaths in China and 11 outside of China. The fatality rate in the point of origin (Wuhan China) is between 2-4% but outside of this region fatality […]
Operating Room Efficiency This week I am talking to Dr. Bala Nair, Ph.D. CTO and Co-Founder of Perimatics and an Associate Professor at the University of Washington along with Dr. Rajeev Saxena, MD, MBA Anesthesiology Resident at the University of Washington. They are authors on the paper: Improving Operating Room Efficiency: Machine Learning Approach to Predict Case-Time Duration that […]
