Benjamin Isgur

Fidelity Investments VP of health care thought leadership. Kid wrangler. Soccer. Zombie novels. All things Texana. Views my own.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Very good news
Metformin significantly helped prevent #LongCovid in a placebo-controlled randomized trial, a 42% relative reduction
https://t.co/go20dm3NnN by @BramanteCarolyn
and colleagues

[Paul Hughes-Cromwick (Pooge) @cromwick]

I've worked in health policy & health economics for over 35 years. I've heard since the beginning, about US healthcare (non) system being unsustainable. Yet it is sustained -->

US HC system, however flawed, and despite how much you might not like it, IS SUSTAINABLE!

Discuss

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Visiting space aliens, upon seeing humans oppress — or kill — one another over who they worship, who they sleep with, what side of an arbitrary line they’re born on, or how absorptive their skin is to sunlight, would surely race home & report no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

[achentx @achentx]

ACHENTX's Student Council's annual Student Summit, Saturday, February 18, at the UTA Fort Worth Campus.

https://t.co/4W1xXUnOwJ

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

US Covid hospitalizations are at a plateau ~40,000, which is ~4-fold where we were in April this year.
Likewise, deaths are at ~500 each day, and confirmed cases still hover about 100,000 per day.
This is not what containing the virus looks like.

[Hell's Half Acre Stadium Goods @HellsHalfAcreSG]

For the city. For the Fort. #817day

[levshapiro @levshapiro]

Downloads of the top mental health apps have declined by over 30% since January 2021
https://t.co/l1Gl1PoXJc

@apptopia #mentalhealth #digitalhealth @kirkpatara

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Why isn't the contrast dye shortage due to supply chain issues in China, affecting so many aspects of medical practice and patient imaging, getting national media coverage? And how did we get to rely 100% on China for contrast dye?

[Andy Slavitt 🇺🇦 @ASlavitt]

COVID Update: We are experiencing a significant wave of case growth.

We may be getting clues as to what endemic COVID looks like. If so, it feels different from other endemic diseases in some important ways. 1/

[Kristen Peek @kristenpeek1]

Check out this editorial on residential segregation and cities’ responses to COVID in AJPH from one of our new faculty members and Associate Professor Dr. Tse-Chuan Yang. @UTMBProvost @utmbnews

[Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA @sacjai]

The primary social determinant of health is wealth.

Could it be that the best social determinant intervention is moneyinstead of the panoply of feel-good programs (meals, transport, etc) that have minimal demonstrated effect on the health of populations?

[Paul Sax @PaulSaxMD]

I was trying to describe how Covid gobbles up all the time we ID docs used to spend on other stuff -- there are only so many hours in the day.

Fortunately, my sister came to the rescue with a clever graphic, which explains it perfectly. Latest: https://t.co/bFFepQPEmr

[TCU @TCU]

After a successful collaboration that resulted in the creation of one of the nation’s newest medical schools, the former TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine is now the TCU School of Medicine. #LeadOnTCU https://t.co/S59GVrj6u3

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

With infections spiking, can be hard to see the light

But the peak of this wave is coming into view

Cases now falling in NYC, DC
MA wastewater shows big declines

Yes, parts of US still rising. And hospitals have many tough weeks ahead

But nationally, wave will crest. And soon

[Evan Smith @evanasmith]

THREAD
🚨 Today I let my colleagues know that 2022 — my 30th year in journalism in Texas — will be my last as @texastribune’s CEO. There’s never a good time to leave a job you love, but there’s a right time. This is the right time for me and for us https://t.co/FZKQTbAJa7 #txlege

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Good to see Omicron U-turns
@OurWorldInData

[Michael Mina @michaelmina_lab]

THREAD:

This is an important study - supports anecdotes and other work by @awyllie13

Virus growing and detectable in saliva days earlier than the nose!

Both PCR & Ag in nose lag saliva 1-3 days

In Nose, PCR is 1 day faster than Ag (As Expected)

1/

https://t.co/Z55K9TQtq2

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

The primary purpose of vaccines is to prevent serious illness and death

To that end, vaccines are working remarkably well

[Kristen Peek @kristenpeek1]

I can’t express how proud I am of our Aerospace Medicine Program! Another one of our graduates is an astronaut! @UTMB_PrevMed @UTMBProvost @utmbnews @utsystem @UTMBGSBS

[Benjamin Isgur @bisgur]

West Campus’ housing affordability crisis is taking a toll on UT students https://t.co/dRNY1cc1fd