Ashlee Adams

@mcuban I called out one of his lies on a post with supporting evidence and my account was canceled and I no longer had access to the platform (have to use a new one)

Anyone consider that maybe Elon’s mission, is for Elon to get what he wants, rather than the country to get what you voted for ? It’s not a shock for Elon , or anyone, to put their personal goals first Elon seems to be on a mission to protect brand Elon at all costs. No ? Free Speech is everything. Until it’s anything related to Elon. Who has complete control over speech here on X The censorship of the platform you adore is in the hands of a single person, who is on a mission to make himself the most powerful person in the world. above and beyond the President of the United States.

@tedcruz Can you please share the usaspending.gov link to this spending that you're referencing so we can see the details?

USAID secretly poured uncountable hundreds of millions of dollars toward Hamas, including tens of millions of cash they could never account for. Throughout the Biden admin, they knew the money they were pouring into Gaza would benefit Hamas. They did it anyway. dailycaller.com/2025/02/04/bid…

@michaelmina_lab Thanks for helping to educate on this. What does that mean practically since the only option is bivalent booster with ancestral strain? Better to avoid booster and wait for improved ones, even if >6 months from last?

Ancestral spike should be removed from the vaccine Potential for “antigenic seniority” to blunt new immunity by focusing on a response to a spike that is no-longer existing is… not wise Have warned of this for a long time now twitter.com/michaelmina_la… biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@brianschatz Public opinion shouldn't dictate public health. Universal masking was required because it's significantly more effective than one-way masking. twitter.com/tmprowell/stat…

If someone wants to wear a mask - or not - just let them.

Inside FDA's food failure >>> My investigation into why FDA doesn't come anywhere near American consumers' expectations on food safety and nutrition. Been working on this for months (or really, a decade?) Pour yourself a cup of coffee and read it here: politico.com/interactives/2…

@bjfogg Incorporating more plants in the diet is great, but focusing on an exclusively plant-based diet is narrow and not a solution for which evidence is strong. Consider a broader framing that would be approachable to more people.

Your input please . . . My Stanford lab may do research & design to help people get started on a plant-based diet. Yes --> plant-based diet. What do you think of this direction? poor, fair, good, excellent . . . or something else?

@halletecco @Bob_Wachter How are health systems rethinking triage protocols when there is a workforce/resource shortage? Is there a role for health systems (govt? EMS?) to help train a "second tier" of community workers to help with basic emergency care when first responders & hospitals are overrun.

In non-Covid news (yes, there's some), @Oracle buying @Cerner is fascinating. cnbc.com/2021/12/20/ora… EHR biz is no great shakes, yet millions of patients' health data is priceless. The deal is Act 1 in a play by digital giants to buy these data – let the ethics questions begin!

@profshanecrotty Thanks for your insights. I haven't seen anyone talk about the efficacy of diagnostics and the variants. Are current tests just as accurate at detecting the variants?

(i) we get enough people vaccinated to blunt a B117 surge in coming months (hi Texas, get it together), (ii) current vaccines work well enough against more challenging VOCs in the interim, and (iii) a booster vaccine is likely to be quite successful against B1351-like variants

How much immunity do you need to stop COVID? And what about the variants? Here's the way I am currently thinking about it. Please imagine these models written in crayon. They are not formal, just where my head is at. 🧵

For our 6th annual Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report, we partnered with @StanfordCDH to understand how the pandemic impacted use of digital health technologies. Check out the data & learn implications for innovators, enterprises & consumers alike. rockhealth.com/reports/digita…

@patrick_oshag The Psychobiotic Revolution by @Psychobiotic

Need a good, detailed read. Read anything great recently?

@patrick_oshag @joincolossus Business models and regulation

Trying to think of exhaustive list of the different types of business deep dives: 1. single business (e.g. Shopify) 2. industry (e.g. Restaurants) 3. topics (e.g. NFTs) 4. historical cases (e.g. South Sea) 5. frameworks (e.g. 7 powers) what else? @joincolossus will do it all

Fabulous trial reduced loneliness, depression, and anxiety in Meals on Wheels participants who live alone over four weeks. How? College volunteers w 2 hrs training simply called a roster of 6-9 folks 2-5X/week (elders' choice) to ask how they are. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Worth the read as you make decisions on protocols for seeing family & friends in a "bubble", sending kids back to school, heading back to work etc.

@patrick_oshag add @lindaavey to the list!

Looking for people with these qualities: - doing their life’s work - working on one thing for a long time - hard to stump (domain knowledge) - have been beaten up and continued on - adaptive - high energy & integrity - doing something unique Who do you know that hits these?

Thought it was raining last night but it was just the sweet tears of private equity partners all across the country.

Excellent (and heartbreaking) thread to understand the nuances of data we're seeing.

@profshanecrotty Thx for the informative thread. Do you know how safety during trials compares to long-term safety for vaccines generally? Any patterns for types of vaccines, trial speed/processes, etc. when trial data =/ safety years out?

5/ Third, over 70,000 doses of these COVID-19 RNA vaccines have been given to people now, and the independent safety boards (not controlled by the companies) have reported no serious concerns. That’s a lot of safety data!

1/ Are RNA vaccines safe? I have gotten this question a lot lately, and it is a good question.

Especially since there aren't any available hospital beds...

@ashleymayer Especially when replying. You've had 3 opportunities (sender, signature, and my written closing) to see that it's Ashlee.

Half of being good at email is spelling the other person's name correctly.