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Ashlee Adams retweeted
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/20…
Ashlee Adams retweeted
In non-Covid news (yes, there's some), @Oracle buying @Cerner is fascinating. cnbc.com/2021/12/20/oracle-t… 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!
Ashlee Adams retweeted
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/digit…
Ashlee Adams retweeted
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/jam…
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.
“False sense of security”—high tech gathering of 49 tech thinkers was held in 4 day “bubble” without mask mandate after arrival+daily testing. Result? ~43% (21 of 49) of tech attendees got #COVID19 soon after, including organizer @PeterDiamandis. 0% of masked support staff. 🧵
Ashlee Adams retweeted
Thought it was raining last night but it was just the sweet tears of private equity partners all across the country.
After years of being stymied by well-funded interests, Congress has agreed to ban one of the most costly and exasperating practices in medicine: surprise medical bills.
nytimes.com/2020/12/20/upsho…
Excellent (and heartbreaking) thread to understand the nuances of data we're seeing.
Especially since there aren't any available hospital beds...
This is a very big deal -- enabling reimbursement for acute hospital care at home. And I'm proud of the @AriadneLabs team led by David Levine that helped make it possible.
Better public health campaigns and smarter, kinder messaging to kids is important, but we also need to demand better from companies producing (and aggressively marketing) the sugary, processed foods in the first place.
#Calories in - calories out = #FatShaming. But calories are the wrong metric. Insulin is the right metric. It's about #MetabolicHealth. It's about #UltraprocessedFood. 88% of America is metabolically ill. The way to stop fat shaming is to kill the calorie.
nytimes.com/2020/11/13/opini…
Ashlee Adams retweeted
I've spoken to around 1,000 companies over the last 6 months about their plans for remote work going forward
Here are a few things I've learned
[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍
Ashlee Adams retweeted
Have Questions About Science?
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Ashlee Adams retweeted
Here's a scientist who believed that time-restricted eating (eating in an 8-hour window each day) was helpful for weight loss.
He did a trial, and TRE wasn't any better than the control group.
He is shouting from the rooftops that his theory was wrong.
Science in action.
Ashlee Adams retweeted
1/ As a state leader, you cannot hide from the virus.
What you can do is mandate masks, ramp up your testing, require symptomatic folks to isolate, and restrict large gatherings.
It has been 3 months since we launched covidexitstrategy.org and here's what we're seeing.
Ashlee Adams retweeted
Thinking about the thing.
Talking about the thing.
Being inspired about the thing.
Sharing about the thing.
None of that is the same as DOING THE THING or BEING THE THING.
I know this. You know this.
Let's keep reminding ourselves real value requires stepping in the arena.
Seems short-sighted to focus on only deaths as the measure of severity of COVID-19. As the virus is causing permanent heart, lung, and liver damage, I imagine we'll see insurers classifying it as a preexisting condition, adding further economic hardship on top of health hardship.
Anyone out there reporting on how insurers are planning policy changes in light of COVID-19? @chrissyfarr @nic_fisher
"Even when our food system is functioning “normally,” reliably supplying the supermarket shelves and drive-thrus with cheap and abundant calories, it is killing us—slowly in normal times, swiftly in times like these." nybooks.com/articles/2020/06…