Evaluating an AI chatbot's health advice
Wednesday updates
Why hasn't Paxlovid implementation lived up to its expectations?
Prescribed for only 13% in the US & 0.5% in the UK despite it working well against all variants to date, including XBB.1.5 [we've shown rebound is ~10% via systematic assessment]
nature.com/articles/d4158… @maxdkozlov
🧵1/N How do vaccines and/or natural infection change infectiousness of #COVID19 during #Omicron? Our new article published in @NatureMedicine measures #COVID19 infectiousness, and finds reductions from both vaccine and natural infection. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Report estimates deaths, costs from #Cdiff, #MRSA infections in Canada
Infections caused by C difficile and MRSA resulted in 1,743 premature deaths in Canada in 2019 and cost hospitals more than $91 million (USD)
cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-…
#AMR #AntibioticStewardship @CIDRAP_ASP