In order to prevent further spread of #COVID19 in the #STL region, County Executive Sam Page and I will be enacting mandatory stay at home orders, effective on Monday. The measures will still allow residents to receive basic services & meet basic needs. Will have more to share this afternoon.

From the chair of surgery at Columbia Presbyterian

I spoke with Dr. Edison Liu, president & CEO of The Jackson Laboratory, about JAX's work to breed a specialized strain of mice to help researchers find a vaccine for COVID-19. bangordailynews.com/2020/03/18/new…

I love this photo of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri from the turn of the 20th century. The walls were painted by a surgeon who wanted to give patients something to look at while they waited to be anesthetized. #everydayheroes #histmed

Recently, our #COVID19 serology group MGH Pathology🔬 became aware that a disproportionate number of COVID19 cases were from Chelsea, a small town near Boston. We wanted to help public health & city officials understand the extent of the outbreak using serology assays we validated

Wow. Preprint on patient group of 368 hospitalized veterans with COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine treatment: *higher* death rates than treatment without HC. "Rates of death in the HC, HC+AZ, and no HC groups were 27.8%, 22.1%, 11.4%, respectively." medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

How serology was essential to crack the case of Singapore #COVID19 clusters thelancet.com/journals/lanin… "This investigation exemplifies the failings of RT-PCR as a sole diagnostic method" thelancet.com/action/showPdf… The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Editorial: Asymptomatic Transmission, the Achilles’ Heel of Current Strategies to Control Covid-19. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2

Since beginning testing on March 24, we're pleased to share that our CLIA lab has reached a 🆕 milestone and processed over 10,000 #COVID19 tests for 30 Connecticut-based hospitals and healthcare facilities: jax.org/news-and-insig…

Iowa Steve King lost. I am the last Steve King standing. (Takes a bow.)

Continue to be impressed with how swiftly and cohesively neurosurgery leadership has adopted change for this year’s residency application cycle. This piece is another great example of transparent communication and how to use our current climate to address areas for improvement.

Congratulations to the five new CRI LJO STAR scientists: Drs. @joshuabrodyMD, @TDanino, Delgoffe Lab, @GavinGpdunn, and @HolabUnil. The five scientists are awarded $1.25 million each to carry out transformative cancer immunotherapy research 👏 bit.ly/3i8Jomc

Award-winning socioeconomic #neurosurgery research from UTHSC Neurosurgery: ‘the on-call activities of a single neurosurgery resident generated a theoretical billing value of $344,757 annually’ #residency #doctor #MedTwitter #surgery Neurosurgery AANS rb.gy/oc2tmy

Very excited to announce the release of pVACtools 2.0 (pvactools.org). A major update to our suite of tools for neoantigen characterization. Big congrats to the whole team (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31907209/), but especially Susanna Kiwala!

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Calling MS4s applying into #neurosurgery — kick it with our interns! Connor Liu Joe Dardick James Feghali Next Sunday (7/25/21) at 7 PM. #medtwitter #MedStudentTwitter Sign up here: bit.ly/3xQnVXh CNS AANS Inside The Match Uncle Harvey

Great work from students Max Schaettler and Megan Richters and outstanding collaborations with Malachi Griffith, Obi Griffith, PhD, Elaine Mardis Nationwide Children's Hospital, and colleagues at Washington University Neurosurgery Albert H. Kim

The average resident physician earns around $60,000/year. But what is their financial impact on the hospitals that employ them? What are resident physicians worth? thesheriffofsodium.com/2022/02/04/how…

From OR to Ironman, mode push.