A day after infusion of an experimental drug, helicopter transfer, hospitalization, Remdesivir, 2 brief notes from his doctor on the medications....we're going to hear directly from Dr Conley shortly. That'll be interesting.
No supplemental oxygen now, oxygen sat 96%, walking around, "doing extremely well," no fever since Friday morning. On therapy: "For the President, I didn't want to hold anything back." Not going into anything specific on lung findings (CT?). Why transfer: "He's POTUS" End.
Mostly a delayed, evasive, lack of transparency (on oxygen, lung scan, vital signs, real reason for use of treatments, differences from other reports) but, ironically, one inadvertent and potentially serious disclosure on timeline nytimes.com/2020/10/03/us/…
Did Dr. Conley and team think this wouldn't come out?
Are you "weak" if you get supplemental oxygen?
For medical information, general AI frontier models (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic) outperformed specialized @EvidenceOpen and @UpToDate as assessed by 12 US clinicians, randomized and blinded to which model and extensive testing/benchmarks. This was not anticipated. @NatureMedicine nature.com/articles/s4159…
If you're interested in how AI grew up over the past 15 years, and where it's headed, this new book tells the story in a riveting, page-turner way. In the new Ground Truths with @scmallaby
In 2010, when @GoogleDeepMind was formed, well before deep learning was taking hold, @demishassabis predicted AGI by 2030 and called out the use of agents
@GoogleDeepMind @demishassabis This is pretty striking
(please excuse typo, DeepMind's)
Physical activity and the reduction of all-cause mortality, from 2 very large prospective cohorts 1. The relationship is non-linear, suggesting a threshold effect for many types of exercise as seen below
2. Engaging in > 1 type of physical activity was generally correlated with better outcomes compared with 1 type (T1,2,3)
People age 70+ should not be taking aspirin at any dose for prevention. Results of randomized trials show higher risk of all-cause mortality, major bleeding events and deaths from cancer. p 153, SUPER AGERS book
President Trump takes 325 mg aspirin/day. The randomized trials tested 75-81 mg/day. His doctors recommended low-dose aspirin for heart event prevention. That recommendation is ill-founded based upon best evidence in older individuals. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… academic.oup.com/eurheartj/arti…
As I wrote in SUPER AGERS, the immune system is the key to modulating our aging process and the opportunity to extend healthspan. Today @NatureAging 7 new articles, summarized here, that reinforce its central role nature.com/articles/s4358…