drizzle health

Large scale, community centric diagnostics to test all of our food, water, environment & air. Starting with TB.

[Digvijay @S_Digvj]

Metagenomics + Frontier AI = Protection against new threats? Not quite, imo.
Wrote a response to @Simon__Grimm 's fantastic @IFP essay on scaling pathogen detection. The architecture is right. The input layer is missing/non-trivial. (1/7)

[drizzle health @DrizzleHealth]

@S_Digvj @CDCgov @BeakerH @DrRHatchett @mkoeris @longevc @BioPrevail @AllianceCBRN

[Digvijay @S_Digvj]

CDC's wastewater surveillance detects pathogens 2 weeks after spillovers. Yet everyone in biosecurity is building faster, cheaper, more sensitive tests. They're solving the wrong problem.
The bottleneck isn't detection. It's sampling & concentration (& incentive alignment). (1/n)

[drizzle health @DrizzleHealth]

@S_Digvj @wellcometrust @BillGates @gatesfoundation @BMGFIndia @RockefellerFdn @SkollFoundation @ChanZuckerberg @biomerieux

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@S_Digvj @CDCgov @paulg

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@S_Digvj @CDCgov @trvrb @BethCameron_DC @open_phil @JacobTref

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@S_Digvj @CDCgov @patrickc @wolfejosh @vijaypande @zeynep @kakape @robbensinger

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@S_Digvj @T_Inglesby @JenniferNuzzo @HelenBranswell @EricTopol @BSPH_CHS

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@amangour30 @suhel @sureshvadlakon3 @akki_bhide @SandeshHegde112 @AdarshR38130851 @ArjunRamakrish8 @Satya79208517 @KomaraSudhakar @Kiran436N @smitagupta83 @arshadpharm @shibashish_hota @nikBirur @_amarchaudhari Great! Good luck at YC!

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@amangour30 @suhel @sureshvadlakon3 @akki_bhide @SandeshHegde112 @AdarshR38130851 @ArjunRamakrish8 @Satya79208517 @KomaraSudhakar @Kiran436N @smitagupta83 @arshadpharm @shibashish_hota @nikBirur @_amarchaudhari Same situation. I just cancelled them and will rebook once it gets processed. Hopefully before the 10th. Attending IIT Global in DC by any chance?

[drizzle health @DrizzleHealth]

@paulg That everyone is building better tech to detect stuff in sputum, but processing the sputum to get it ready for testing is still pretty oldschool

[drizzle health @DrizzleHealth]

@ringostarrmusic TIL you had TB when you were 12 and used the hospital time to learn drumming! Lucky for you (& us!). 1.5 million people still die of TB every year, and 40% aren't even diagnosed. Tell us your story! (We're making $2 tools to test people at their home) #WorldTBDay

[drizzle health @DrizzleHealth]

@BUGSSlab Do you currently have benches/space available for rent? We're looking for lab space and are trying to sign up for your membership/entrepreneur program

[drizzle health @DrizzleHealth]

@pmarca We're building local entrepreneurship opportunities for community workers, right into our community centric Dx products + a real-time public dashboard for locals to know and pursue the state of diseases. Different from government "provided" centralized Dx.
#india #decentralized

[drizzle health @DrizzleHealth]

Studies have even shown under-diagnosis of TB amongst women. https://t.co/MRhXUGfwMg

Sporadic evidence also suggests sample collection and quality of sample as major impediments.
Sample enrichment for a variety of demographic is an area of focus for us.
#InternationalWomensDay

[REACH @SpeakTB]

TB is often thought of as a ‘male disease’. More men are affected by TB. But the impact on women is significant

🤰🏽higher health risks during pregnancy
🙇🏽‍♀️disproportionate TB-related #stigma
😞the burden of #caregiving

Let’s talk about why👇

#InternationalWomensDay
#IWD2023

[Survivors Against TB @SATB1231]

For #InternationalWomensDay and beyond, let's all fully #EmbraceEquity.
#IWD2023

@MoHFW_INDIA @supriya_sule @KanimozhiDMK @deepticomesback @sundaekrish @keyuriab @TBHDJ @StopTB @tb_ppm @TBFreeWorld @TbDivision @consulting_pi

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Science is like magic but real https://t.co/8DzvmKvl6N

[drizzle health @DrizzleHealth]

@paulg Does it last?

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@Aleborda21 We're in Baltimore but perhaps another time!

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@patrick_oshag building infectious disease testing tools that can reach the economically poor amongst us.