Andrew Platt

Physician. Scientist. Well traveled. Travels well. Infectious Diseases and Critical Care Fellow at the NIH/NIAID.

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

Horrible experience with @Delta this weekend. Flight DL832, delayed 13 hours first for weather then they wouldn't say why. Came back to the airport this morning to find they'd canceled the flight without notice and even desk agents didn't know what happened.

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

Published today! Incredibly proud to see our work demonstrating live SARS-CoV-2 virus is present in blood in COVID-19, out today in Annals of Internal Medicine. @AnnalsofIM @NIAIDNews @NIHCritCare @NIH

https://t.co/QebYHZrsTN

[Christa Zerbe @ZerbeID]

Congratulations to @icelight! aka #AndrewPlatt
https://t.co/ReMoA3h2KC
First authorship by NIH ID and NIH CC alumnus!
@NIAIDTraining @NIAIDNews @BethesdaID

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

Today is publication day for something we’ve been working on for the last 2+ years. Couldn’t have been done with all our collaborators, and leadership from Dan and Sydney. Seeing it in Nature is a fantastic culmination. https://t.co/5tr9bzJuAP

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

@xkcd I won a statewide science fair in high school by showing a system like that can still transmit information. LED for rapid on/off, FM had the least signal degradation.

[Dr. Marcos J. Ramos-Benitez @mjramosphd]

On January 3, 2019 I moved to Washington DC and since, I dreamed of this moment, today I move back to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷🏝

Beyond excited, I will be faculty and principal investigator @PonceHealthSU .

Next Stop : Dr. Ramos-Benitez Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis Lab 💙

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

@bbernatek the tweet wasn’t aimed at Biden. I saw what he said. He got carried away. They clarified. Whatever. But there are a lot of people who ARE demanding this. And that’s nuts. It will certainly be hard to have normal relations with him in power. But making this policy is disastrous.

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

@UrsulaV The list the study in question used is at https://t.co/LuxcgBBbY5 and of note, obesity was found to be not significantly associated with death.

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

@WApplefeld Upstream of the catheter perhaps. But around the catheter lower cross-sectional area for blood flow would increase velocity, and Bernoulli's principle should decrease pressure.

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

@grrlpowercomic "Fusiform" (spindle shaped, tapering at both ends) would be pretty close to what you're looking for.

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

A very Infectious Disease/Critical Care sign-out over the weekend in the @NIHClinicalCntr ICU, with fashion courtesy of @BMCimRES and @DrYadavalli

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

@NitinSeam @ATSScholar @atscommunity @pkritek @GrahamCarlos @laxswamy @gretchemaben @dina_khateebDO @ATS_Assemblies Off by a year? Unless time travel is another of your accomplishments.

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

@NicoleHerbst2 Sounds legit. I figured I was set in ID when predictive text started finishing "you can" with "stop vancomycin".

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

Spooky name/icon change for Halloween, because what's really scary is not following a lung protective strategy.

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

@ZachWeiner That sounds like a validated clinical assessment like the MMPI, which they’ve re-purposed. Original design would be to capture full spectrum of psychiatric conditions, hence wide range of questions.

[Sayed Tabatabai, M.D. @TheRealDoctorT]

“Why do you want to be a doctor?”

I answer without hesitation, “I want to help people.”

“There are many ways to help people.”

“I want to save lives.”

“There are many ways to do that too. So I’ll ask you again, why do you want to be a doctor?”

“Because I believe in it.” 1/

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

@NicoleHerbst2 ID. 😁

But yes, the default assumption that CCM inevitably leads to burnout is not a healthy place for the field.

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

@alexsteacy The medical term for exactly that is "Mittelschmerz".

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

@grrlpowercomic Yes, about 3 grams of sodium, or 7 grams of salt (NaCl), per liter of blood.

[Andrew Platt @icelight]

@kenjilopezalt Both the Children's Museum and the Museum of Science are excellent.