HealthTech Capital
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Ecosystem to fund and mentor start ups at the intersection of healthcare and information technologies.
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An assessment of Covid's impact on cognitive function in 740 individuals finds "a relatively high frequency of cognitive impairment several months after patients contracted COVID-19" jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… JAMA Network Open
A new, rigorous and important study of Covid transmission—with or without prior vaccination—in 621 people with mild infections Just published The Lancet Infectious Diseases thelancet.com/lancet/article… Vaccination reduced spread, but it still occurred in household contacts (unvaxx 38%, vaxx 25%)
Western Europe getting worse, while Eastern Europe currently has worst surge in the world Our World in Data nytimes.com/2021/11/10/wor… In Germany, Christian Drosten "has warned that the nation’s pandemic death toll could double if sufficient measures are not taken."
The rapidity with which Omicron is taking hold in Europe "In Norway, health authorities warned that if no countermeasures were taken Omicron could infect up to 300,000 people a day compared with the previous peak of about 1,000 cases." ft.com/content/3c27c1… Richard Milne Financial Times
On the after-effects of Covid, beyond and including #LongCovid "Covid generated a kind of epidemiological aftershock by leaving people susceptible to a huge range of other conditions" ft.com/content/26e073… Financial Times by Sarah Neville Federica Cocco