
Sam S.
@sdslavin
Lover of poems, travel, languages and food I’ve never tried before. Opinions my own.
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03-09-2013 01:34:10
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"But the pandemic has also revealed a quiet kind of heroism: that of the billions of people whom we’ve asked to stay home, abandon their livelihoods, and set aside their own identities for the sake of preventing deaths they cannot see." Lisa Rosenbaum tinyurl.com/y7jjr8c4

To date, Africa, with a population of >1.2 billion, has only had a small fraction of #COVID19 deaths and < 80,000 confirmed cases. Why? 1. Rest-of-world comparison Our World in Data and The Economist


Consistent data from our multicenter health system (#MGB) spanning >6K patients showing a striking 43% ⬇ in acute CV hospitalizations during #COVID19 Thank you, Muthu Vaduganathan for allowing me to be part of this important work Now out in JACC Journals: onlinejacc.org/content/early/…





Tanpri, gade echantiyon liv lang manman Friends of Matènwa sou Platfòm MIT-Haiti Initiative / Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti. Wi, Ayiti nou vle a posib. Nou ka inove nouvo pratik pou tout etidyan ka aprann nan kreyativite ak kè kontan nan sèl grenn lang sa a (kreyòl) ki simante tout Ayisyen ansanm. Yon lòt Ayiti posib, wi.



Makes me think of how racism is amplified by transplant committees, as demonstrated here (ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JA…) by Khadijah Breathett, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA. #Blacklivesmatter in cardiology. #WhiteCoatsForBlackLives

A new systematic review on rubber bullets BMJ_Open: They are very dangerous, w/ deaths, disability, and severe injuries. Not "appropriate for crowd-control settings," yet have been used widely in #GeorgeFloydProtests bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/12/e… Rohini J. Haar UC Berkeley & colleagues


Important work by Darshali Vyas. Beyond impressed (though not surprised) that this was done while an intern MassGeneral Medicine!





Many docs advocate for $$$ therapies without stating the obvious: that their financial toxicity exceeds any clinical benefit to the patient. Led by Brigham & Women's CV Fellows Sam S. in AmericanHeartJ we highlight the growing financial burden of cardiac care. 1/ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

