Daphne Zohar
Founder & CEO, PureTech. I mostly share science/medical news here & sometimes comment on human & business stories. Company news:
Last synced from Twitter 858d ago
Covid-19 expert Akiko Iwasaki fights a different virus: sexism in science
Shraddha Chakradhar - STAT 90d 30 tweets
To know virologist Akiko Iwasaki is to know that she is passionate about combatting sexism, power imbalance, and toxic behavior in academia.
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Daphne Zohar Terrific profile by of my friend and colleague ⁦⁩. She is a true leader in every sense of the world. 90d
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Bloomberg.com 110d 2 tweets
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Daphne Zohar Peter Marks consistently comes across as credible and decent. FDA Will Force Vaccine-Safety Disclosures If Makers Don’t 104d
What are polyclonal antibodies?
Fox News 113d 1 tweets
According to a statement from White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Trump received an 8-gram dose of the polyclonal antibody cocktail.
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Daphne Zohar This is the epitope of 2020 (or epitome 🤷🏻‍♀️whatevs). Fox News puts out an article to clear up the confusion about polyclonal antibodies: HT 113d
A Message To TikTok Parents Who Use My Face To Make Their Kids Cry
Refinery29.com 151d 18 tweets
The cruel New Teacher Challenge is a viral prank making its way through TikTok that uses disabled faces like mine as the punchline.
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Daphne Zohar Full of admiration for ⁦⁩. Imagine having a disability that causes you to look different. With bravery & perseverance, you survive childhood teasing to become a successful & talented adult to have clueless parents share their cruelty 150d
My COVID-19 | Annals of Internal Medicine
Acpjournals.org 167d 5 tweets
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Daphne Zohar “Drenching sweats, shortness of breath, nausea, delirium, hallucinations...The toll of COVID-19 on mental health compounded by quarantine, isolation & uncertainty cannot be overstated” COVID experience of MD (expert in LT effects of torture) 167d
Choir of more than 100 people perform without masks at Pence event
CNN 211d 13 tweets
A choir of more than one hundred people performed without masks at a robustly attended event in Texas at the First Baptist Church on Sunday that featured a speech by Vice President Mike Pence.
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Daphne Zohar How is this possible? This is the person leading our national COVID-19 task force. This happened TODAY in Texas during a surge where people can’t get tested. 100-person choir sings without masks at Pence event with over 2,000 attendees HT ⁦⁩ 211d
Longitudinal immunological analyses reveal inflammatory misfiring in severe COVID-19 patients
medRxiv 215d 6 tweets
Recent studies have provided insights into the pathogenesis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)1-4. Yet, longitudinal immunological correlates of disease outcome remain unclear. Here, we serially analysed immune responses in 113 COVID-19 patients...
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Daphne Zohar Fascinating and important work by ⁦⁩ & colleagues shed light on immune response profile associated with severe COVID-19 outcomes & early immune signatures that correlate w/ disease trajectories 214d
A health data firm making extraordinary claims about its data
free range statistics 240d 10 tweets
Surgisphere, a tiny startup that claims to be providing large real world data for scientific health studies, is probably fabricating data at scale.
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Daphne Zohar Wow puts together a meticulous case that the treatment & health outcomes data on 96,032 patients from 671 hospitals in six continents from high profile Lancet study on #hydroxychloroquine are “with very high probability completely fabricated” 239d
RA Capital | Covid-19
RA Capital 258d 13 tweets
RA Capital
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Daphne Zohar Link 258d
COVID-19 Projections Using Machine Learning
COVID-19 Projections Using Machine Learning 271d 160 tweets
We take a data-driven approach rooted in epidemiology to forecast infections, deaths, and recovery timelines of the COVID-19 / coronavirus epidemic in the US and around the world
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Daphne Zohar According to these R0 estimates from one of the most accurate modeling groups, distancing interventions have brought estimated R0 below 1 in every state and country listed. If we have a unified approach going forward, we could quash this #TestTraceIsolate 260d
COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning tool
Covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu 264d 59 tweets
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Daphne Zohar New interactive dashboard by w/ real-time estimates of risk at gatherings of different sizes factoring ongoing transmission. Addresses “what is the chance that 1 or more ppl at events of X size is infected?” Not instead of distancing/masks 264d
Akili Announces ENDEAVORTM Digital Attention Treatment is Now Available for Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) under FDA’s COVID-19 Enforcement Discretion Guidance
Businesswire.com 278d 2 tweets
Akili Announces Video Game-Based Attention Treatment is Now Available for Children with ADHD under FDA COVID-19 Enforcement Discretion Guidance
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Daphne Zohar As a parent of a child with ADHD, I have been eagerly awaiting this day and I’m proud to be affiliated with & ENDEAVOR. Congrats to & the rest of the team! 278d
19th Annual Needham Healthcare Conference
Wsw.com 285d 1 tweets
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Daphne Zohar Was my first time participating in a completely virtual investor conference & it was surprisingly productive. No travel, lots of investor meetings. Wouldn’t mind if all confs move virtual. My presentation via cellphone (you barely even hear kids yelling) 285d
Who Is Immune to the Coronavirus?
Nytimes.com 287d 76 tweets
About this question, too, decisions with great consequences are being made, as they must be, based on only glimmers of data.
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Daphne Zohar This is a good summary of what is currently known about SARSCoV19 immunity as it relates to potential exit strategies (including the reactivation/reinfection/testing error discussion) by . 287d
Tiger tests positive for coronavirus at Bronx Zoo, first known case in the world
Animals 294d 19 tweets
The big cat is the first known case of a non-domesticated animal with COVID-19 symptoms—and is one of seven sick tigers at the New York zoo.
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Daphne Zohar The tigers got tested after exhibiting symptoms eg dry cough. I understand the importance of understanding interspecies transmission but it’s sort of strange that these tigers could get tested “out of abundance of caution” when so many humans cannot 294d
COVID-19 inspections at supermarkets to begin tomorrow - Inside Israel
Israel National News 301d 1 tweets
The pilot will begin in several branches - including Victory in Be'er Sheva and Rami Levy in Jerusalem and the center of the country.
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Safety Alert Regarding the Use of FMT & Risk of Serious Adverse Events
U.S. Food and Drug Administration 319d 1 tweets
FDA providing information to health care providers about potential risk of serious or life-threatening infections with the use of FMT
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Daphne Zohar To quote one of my colleagues "As long as companies are allowed to use sh*t for drugs, the revolution needed to bring the microbiome into its appropriate highest quality use for human health and revolutionize therapy will be affected, and this is very sad" 319d
Kudos to DXY.cn Last update: 01/30/2020, 11:30 am (EST)
Docs.google.com 360d 1 tweets
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Daphne Zohar Found it (below). Disturbing that deaths & particularly serious (1,476) cases rising but not seeing a big rise in “recovered” cases. Given that people may be taking longer to recover, when would we expect to see uptick in recovered cases? 360d
Truth: A Love Story
Harvard Magazine 591d 19 tweets
A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
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Daphne Zohar “I eventually discovered the identity of my biological father, whom I had code-named the crybaby”⁩ Riveting piece by ⁦⁩ radiates love & protectiveness for his mother & childhood self along w/ complicated love for an abusive father 590d
Accuracy of Waterfall Plots of Cancer Treatment Response in Medical Journals
Jamanetwork.com 619d 12 tweets
This cross-sectional study of oncology articles in high–impact factor journals examines the frequency with which waterfall plots are used and measures the accuracy of these plots in representing response rate compared with investigator-assessed and...
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Daphne Zohar Curious what the oncology community thinks of this latest paper by : “Waterfall plots visually overestimate the response rate by 11% and should be evaluated with caution” 618d