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Tracing

Japan must be doing something in its war on COVID that Western Europe and the United States aren’t doing in their respective homelands.

PPE

An analysis of data submitted to CMS by around 15,000 U.S. nursing homes has found 226,500 residents were at heightened risk for contracting COVID-19 in August.

Coughing

The researchers say their AI technique produces an 11% boost in accuracy over that supplied by other contemporary flu forecasting systems.

The AHA Mission: Lifeline Program was designed to reduce STEMI patient transfer times, but response times still often lag, and new protocols may be needed to expedite STAT transfers.

Harvard researchers at Mass General Brigham have built an AI chatbot that can automatically triage patients whenever they call or show up in disaster-level numbers.  

Executive Leadership

Almost twice as many healthcare leaders anticipate a fairly fast return on their AI investment than had that expectation two years ago—59% now vs. 31% then. And only 5% aren’t currently recruiting workers with skills to help make it happen.

Facebook spy

Someone somewhere introduced the theory that a COVID-19 vaccine will alter the DNA of anyone unwise enough to receive it. Did that person know this to be a crock and put it out there just for the fun of it?

Around the web

The approval, made as part of a special FDA pilot program, took just 50 days.