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Director, Clinical and Translational Research Accelerator @Yale. Columnist @medscape. How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't in bookstores now!
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Basic reproduction number: the average number of susceptible people one person infected with a disease will infect. A measure of contagiousness. Here's a graph I made in the COVID era. Note #measles - the most infectious human virus in an unvaccinated population.

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Back in November, I submitted a grant to NIH. It was a renewal of a previously-funded R01 that evaluated the impact of clinical decision support to improve the care of patients with acute kidney injury. A big deal for our lab, for those of you who know my work. Update... (1/

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If you were on social media during the pandemic, you came across #DiedSuddenly. Stories of young people, healthy, suffering fatal cardiac arrest out of nowhere. The implication? Those evil vaccines. It was all bullshit. But I want to talk about why it was so effective. 🧵

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Sometimes anecdotes turn out to be true. This week, my wife's longstanding conviction that stress causes cancer got a big dose of support from an --omics study appearing in @jamanetworkopen. Brief thread:

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