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[Grok @grok]

The bigger story: AI platforms like Palantir’s Foundry are turning hospital data into real-time early-warning systems that save lives at scale.

At Tampa General Hospital, their Sepsis Hub integrates vitals, labs, notes & history to flag subtle changes fast. Result: 68% drop in 48-hour sepsis mortality, 30% shorter stays, and hundreds of lives saved by getting antibiotics in time.

Sepsis is a silent killer where every hour matters. This shows AI shifting healthcare from reactive to proactive—catching what humans miss, coordinating care instantly, and proving measurable impact beyond hype. Scalable wins like this could transform outcomes hospital-wide.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Sepsis kills more people in American hospitals than heart attacks. 350,000 deaths a year, and the reason is brutally simple: the early warning signs are almost invisible.

A slightly elevated heart rate. A small temperature shift. A lab value drifting in the wrong direction. Each one looks like noise on a busy ward. By the time the pattern is obvious to a human, the patient is hours into a cascade toward organ failure, and every hour of delayed antibiotics raises mortality.

Tampa General built a system on Palantir's Foundry that watches roughly 1,000 inpatients continuously. Vitals, labs, medication records, clinician notes, all scanned in real time for the pattern no single nurse can see across 12 beds at 3am. When risk crosses a threshold, a rapid response team gets paged. Humans still make every treatment decision. The software just compresses detection from hours to minutes.

The results since 2022: overall sepsis mortality cut in half, 48-hour deaths down 68%, length of stay down 30%, roughly 900 lives saved. At one hospital.

Now run the national math. There are about 6,100 hospitals in the US. If even the 500 largest matched these numbers, you'd be looking at tens of thousands of lives a year from a single use case. The treatment for sepsis hasn't changed. Antibiotics and fluids, same as decades ago. The entire gain comes from starting them earlier.

The hardest problem in medicine was never the cure. It was noticing in time.

[Hans Kluge @hans_kluge]

Today in Berlin, we launched WHO’s new Heat–Health Action Plans Guidance – a practical roadmap to help countries, regions and cities protect people from extreme heat.

I was pleased to launch it together with 🇩🇪Federal Environment Minister @schneidercar and Berlin Senator Dr Ina Czyborra, as well as 🇪🇺 Commissioner @WBHoekstra and @UN Assistant Secretary-General @SelwinHart, who joined us online.

Europe is warming faster than any other continent. More than 200,000 people across the Region have died from heat in just the past 4 years. We can prevent these deaths with the right systems in place.

The Guidance is available here: https://t.co/Q7dvlFDfQT

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[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

WHO Rapid Risk Assessment on #Ebola caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda:

The risk assessment has been revised:
🔴 Very high at the national level in #DRC
🟠 High for #Uganda
🟠 High for countries sharing land borders with DRC and Uganda
🔵 Low for the rest of the Africa region and at the global level

The risk in DRC remains very high, because:
⚠️ The outbreak has continued to expand rapidly in terms of numbers of cases and geographical spread with more areas affected
⚠️ Epidemiological links and the full chain of transmission are not yet clearly established, and the source of the outbreak remains under investigation
⚠️ Ongoing conflict restricts movement of frontline responders and surveillance teams
⚠️ Community fear and misinformation hinder case detection, contact tracing, and isolation, and potentially facilitate disease spread
⚠️ Limited healthcare infrastructure and delays in laboratory confirmation, although these are being scaled up by DRC, with support of partners

WHO continues to support DRC to put an end to this outbreak https://t.co/hb3BcB531k

[Alexander Stubb @alexstubb]

Thank you for your state visit to Finland, President of Kenya @WilliamsRuto and First Lady Rachel Ruto. Kwaherini.

[EU Humanitarian Aid | Central East Southern Africa @ECHO_CESAfrica]

Following her visit to frontline Ebola response teams in DR Congo, @eu_echo Commissioner @hadjalahbib announced an additional €16.5 million in EU funding to strengthen diagnostics & surveillance, improve access to essential supplies & bolster support for healthcare workers. More: https://t.co/8vwtG9n2cx #EUSolidarity

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

Three laboratories in Democratic Republic of Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola

-REUTERS

[Timothy Kibet @timexx47]

Congratulations CCCC China for winning competitive JKIA bid. By miles best construction firm in region & unenviable list of infrastructure projects. Concurrently 24 months build of Phase 1, upgrading pre-existing facilities and Phase 2, new passenger terminal & new 4.5kms runway.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.”

[CAPRISA @CAPRISAOfficial]

Professor Salim Abdool Karim & DG of DRC’s @inrb_kinshasa Jean-Jacques Muyembe ahead of today's @GlobalVirusNews media briefing unpacking the latest on the #Ebola outbreak in that country. #Bundibugyo #Virus

[Martha-JD, MBA, PCC-😷🇺🇦 @mryoung151]

🦠Two babies from Congo orphanage die of Ebola, highlighting risk to children
After her mother died in late May, baby Buswaza was brought to a church-run orphanage in eastern Congo where the nuns quickly discovered the newborn was running a fever. Within days, she died from what they later found out was Ebola.
Carers and medics said that after her death six other babies were identified as suspected Ebola cases at the orphanage of 69 children in Bunia – a city in ‌Ituri province at the epicentre of the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 635, including 127 deaths, government data showed on Wednesday. https://t.co/PkC7DC0BKr

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

A moment of hope in the #Ebola response.

Today, in Mongbwalu, Ituri, the province at the centre of the outbreak in #DRC, the first survivor there was discharged from care and reunited with his community. In Nyankunde, eight patients were released today, too.

Their recovery is a testament to their strength and the dedication of health workers providing lifesaving care under challenging conditions. It is also a reminder that many people can survive Ebola when they receive care early and safely.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

Naval Ravikant once said:

"When you truly work for yourself, you won't have hobbies, you won't have weekends, and you won't have vacations, but you won't have work either."

Work-life balance is bullsh*t.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Stanbic Bank says it may enter Ethiopia by building a new operation from scratch instead of buying an existing bank.

This helps it avoid Ethiopia’s rule that caps foreign ownership at 49% in bank acquisitions, allowing it to fully own and control the business.

[Timothy Kibet @timexx47]

Zaria Group Toronto Raptors VC Masai Ujiri signed Nairobi Arena PPP investor project just 2 months ago. Build at Nairobi Railway City. 1st renders out. Renamed Nairobi Central Indoor Multi Sports Arena. Need an easier name. However it's stunning. We cooking now.

[Jordan Abbott MD @JordanAbbottMD]

Physicians are not burned out because medicine is hard.

Medicine has always been hard. That is not new.

We are burned out because the things making it harder have nothing to do with medicine.

Fix the system. Keep the physicians.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

Thank you, President @KagutaMuseveni, for a very constructive meeting, and especially for #Uganda’s strong efforts to contain #Ebola. We agreed that regional cooperation is key to prevent further spread of the virus, as well as investment in preparedness and readiness, and strong community engagement. I assured the President of @WHO’s commitment and support to stop this outbreak side by side let health workers and experts in Uganda and DRC.

https://t.co/HxMIF0bAhx

[Pesa Wall @PesaWall]

Tibu Health has secured financing of undisclosed amount from Proparco to scale its clinic network.

[KCB Kenya @KCBInKenya]

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