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[MedPerson Live @MedpersonLive]

Those were perilous times, Rachel. What would you have done instead? Let millions of people die from COVID? The govt's main failure was not locking down, swiftly! Statistical analysis show that over 250,000 more would have died without PPE! Well worth the £10 billion!

[Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP]

The Covid Inquiry has exposed shocking waste in pandemic procurement under the previous government.

We’ll consider the Inquiry’s recommendations carefully, but my message to those who owe the public purse money is clear - those who profited, will pay.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: The UK government wasted nearly two-thirds of the money it spent on protective equipment - almost £10bn - and had 'perilous' stockpiles that were unprepared for the pandemic, the COVID-19 inquiry has found.

Read more: https://t.co/4wbM0EdW0R

[MedPerson Live @MedpersonLive]

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[Build Canada @buildcanada]

This is news to celebrate!

Artificial intelligence institutes such as @VectorInst, @AmiiThinks, and @Mila_Quebec, alongside academic and health institutions like @UofTDSI, @CAMHnews, and @CHEO will be part of this support for Canadian AI research. 🇨🇦

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’re committing $10 million CAD and partnering with leading AI institutions in Canada to help fund new AI research.

https://t.co/A8wpanWYQO

[The Lancet @TheLancet]

Presented today at #AAIC2026 The first major dementia-prevention study in Latin America finds that structured healthy-lifestyle programme boosts memory and thinking in at-risk older adults. Explore the research: https://t.co/QisZlkCpws

[JAMA Surgery @JAMASurgery]

📝 Narrative Review: #Postoperative #Hypertension should be treated only when symptomatic. As-needed medications for asymptomatic hypertension increase risk of adverse outcomes, supporting a conservative management approach.

https://t.co/DXHdUxwjSu

[The Lancet @TheLancet]

Presented today at #AAIC2026 A new analysis shows dementia risk factors vary by context—but they also commonly co-occur & cluster together, supporting tailored, multidomain intervention strategies. Read more in The Lancet Healthy Longevity: https://t.co/PhlC48CPYe

[MedPerson Live @MedpersonLive]

Nobody should believe this data. We did a 30-month study with the top 10 LLM-models available today and scored them against human MDs or MBBcHs. We asked 3,000 questions. Not one AI-model scored 50% even after 3 corrections. We conclude that AI is not safe in medicine yet.

[Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys]

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 scores 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and is cost and token efficient compared to its peers

Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh) improves 8 points over Muse Spark 1.0 (43) in three months. It is effectively tied with GLM-5.2 (max), GPT-5.4 (xhigh), and GPT-5.6 Luna (max) at 51, three points behind Grok 4.5 (high, 54), with the leading edge at Claude Fable 5 (60), GPT-5.6 Sol (max, 59), and Claude Opus 4.8 (max, 56).

The gains concentrate in Scientific Reasoning, coding, and knowledge; agentic knowledge work lags on GDPval-AA v2.

@AIatMeta shared access with us ahead of public release for benchmarking. Congratulations to @AIatMeta, @finkd, and @alexandr_wang on the release!

Key Takeaways:
➤ Muse Spark 1.1 gains substantially on the first Muse Spark release. This was driven in particular by gains in agentic knowledge work (GDPval-AA v2) and coding (SciCode, TerminalBench). On Humanity's Last Exam, it reaches 45%, within a point of Claude Opus 4.8 (max, 46%) and ahead of GPT-5.5 (44%) and Grok 4.5 (high, 40%)
➤ The most token-efficient of the models effectively tied at 51 and among the cheaper models to run. Muse Spark 1.1 used 94M output tokens to run the Intelligence Index, fewer than GPT-5.4 (xhigh, 109M), GPT-5.6 Luna (max, 125M), and GLM-5.2 (max, 141M). We estimate ~$0.26 per Intelligence Index task at Meta's $1.25/$4.25 pricing - below GLM-5.2 ($0.37) and roughly 3x below GPT-5.4 ($0.89)
➤ The AA-Omniscience gain is driven by abstention rather than accuracy. The score more than quadrupled from 4 to 18 as the hallucination rate fell 35 points (73% to 38%), with the attempt rate down from 95% to 82% and accuracy roughly flat (45% to 41%)

Other model details:
➤ Context window: 1M tokens, up from 262k for Muse Spark 1.0
➤ Pricing: $1.25/$4.25 per 1M input/output tokens; cache hits discounted to $0.15 per 1M
➤ Output speed: ~114 tokens/s median on Meta's first-party API, with a ~21s time to first answer token
➤ Availability: Meta's first-party API at launch

[Dr Meto Edgar Onwuamaegbu @Onwuamaegbu]

#Suicide is a sin! Aiding suicide is also against God's #commandments to his people. The reasons the #AssistedDyingBill must fail on Friday 29 November 2024:

The #Bible champions the sanctity of life and the sinfulness of taking one's own life. Here are some guiding points and verses:

1. **The Sixth Commandment** - - **#Exodus 20:13** - "Thou shall not kill" This commandment is often cited in discussions about suicide, as it prohibits the taking of human life, which would include one's own.[](https://t.co/UHcrBUvXVK)

2. **Life as a Gift from God** - - **#Genesis 2:7** - God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, indicating that life is a divine gift.[](https://t.co/9UdLkvH8DK)

- **Job 1:21** - "The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." The timing and manner of life and death are to be left in God's hands, not to the whims of #Parliament.[](https://t.co/kXvq2pgkrB)

3. **The Body as a Temple** - - **1 #Corinthians 3:16-17** - "Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple." This passage is clear that harming one's body, including through suicide, goes against respecting the body as a temple of the Holy Spirit.[](https://t.co/lDwj7AEcOC)

4. **Examples of Despair and Divine Mercy** - - The stories of figures like Elijah and Jonah, who at times wished to die, demonstrate God's intervention and mercy, suggesting a divine plan for life over despair.[](https://t.co/p6nOrKnV8W)

5. **Sovereignty of God Over Life and Death** - - **Job 30:23** - "I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living." This indicates God's sovereignty over the end of life. It is not for Parliament to decide.[](https://t.co/dqSI0LSdA7)

**Conclusion**
The above verses collectively contribute to the theological understanding that suicide is contrary to God's will and commandments. The sanctity of life is sacrosanct in God's Word. Suicide is a grave sin. It violates the commandment against murder, disregards the body as a temple, and usurps God's dominion over life and death.

[Dr Meto Edgar Onwuamaegbu @Onwuamaegbu]

The #ICC arrest warrant against the #Israeli PM and former Defence Minister is thinly veiled antisemitism. Vote Now!

[The Lancet @TheLancet]

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care has seen remarkable growth in the past 5 years.

A new Review from @LancetDigitalH examines how AI could improve care management, clinical decision-making efficiency, and further research areas 👉 https://t.co/P3uIXMMsCx

[JAMA Surgery @JAMASurgery]

An aqueous antiseptic solution for incisional wound irrigation reduces surgical site infections; study results suggest that the use of antibiotic wound irrigation be avoided. https://t.co/wLhfxvNJVr

[Health Policy Watch @HealthPolicyW]

"Health stories are economic and political and social stories."

🎙️Global Health Matters with @GarryAslanyan and guests @pauladepoju and @snolen | report by @MaayanJaffe
https://t.co/e7NMiOeyqg

[MedPerson Live @MedpersonLive]

Results of the SURMOUNT-2 study: a double-blind, randomised, multicentre, placebo-controlled trial of Tirzepatide in Obesity with T2D. https://t.co/5w5oOEhXux

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