Power to the Patient!
For two years I’ve blogged about DevDays, the twice-annual software developer conference for the FHIR software standard for health data. November 17-20 was this fall’s edition, and in the opening session, Hannah Wei gave a keynote unlike any other.
Fifteen minute video:
After my previous post Winter’s coming. Time to talk about ventilation for coronavirus defense I’ve been amazed that hardly any businesses I’ve visited are using HEPA filters – or if they are, they’re not touting it. Why??
This is important information, with potentially huge benefits for businesses and customers alike. Why are we all focused on waiting for treatment, when all of us (anywhere on the political spectrum) want two things:
Update Nov 11: see also these related posts –
As a subscriber to Amazon’s Audible books, I get a really good daily digest from the Wall Street Journal: four selected articles plus an editorial. Not surprisingly, many recent articles have been about the virus, including two yesterday. The first was the usual roundup of statistics, with no holds barred on how bad it is in the US, due to stupid re-openings. The second had coverage from Europe that bears repeating: How Europe Kept Coronoavirus Cases Low Even After Reopening. Key points:
[Read more…]Ezekiel Emanuel MD is the profane, street-wise Chicago politician widely considered (among people I trust, anyway) to be the architect of the Obamacare legislation, not least because of his ability to design it so enough anti-reform forces would let it through. Those pragmatic compromises are the source of much distress among those people I trust, because the law’s not perfect. But it is perfect in the sense that the legislation passed, and has survived all attempts by vehement opponents to cut its nuts off (so far). So when he gives advice, I believe it will be pragmatic and street-wise. And probably blunt. But winning.
Here’s his advice, last week, on what activities are relatively safe or dangerous as this country continues re-opening for better or worse.
Two months ago I blogged about virus data, and noted that a “natural experiment” was happening in Scandinavia, where Sweden was trying a strategy of herd immunity. It appears to be a complete failure.
The idea was that herd immunity would cause the number of new COVID-19 cases to decline, without the shutdown policies and economic impact adopted by its Scandinavian neighbors. But the rate of new cases in Sweden hasn’t declined, while its neighbors’ all have:
