It's not #COVID, but our new 🔥 study found that more than 280,000 people in the US who inject drugs will die of endocarditis in the next 10 years (>7.2 million years of potential life lost). @IDSA (thread 1/) academic.oup.com/cid/cid/advanc…
We developed a simulation model of injection drug use to project the long term prevalence of endocarditis, skin infections, and overdose--and interventions that might curb the syndemic (The REDUCE model) @NIDAnews@RWalensky (2/) @CHERISHresearch
We found that by 2030, one-third of the mortality will be due to overdose and 20% will be due to endocarditis. @The_BMC@felicejfreyer (3/)