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Adam Feuerstein ✡️
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- Where were you during the Great Google Docs Outage of 2017?
- The tweet that changed everything. One VERY long year ago...Hopefully this is nothing out of the ordinary. But a @ProMED_mail posting about "unexplained pneumonias" in China is giving me #SARS flashbacks. promedmail.org/promed-post/?i…
- FANTASTIC BREAKING NEWS: #Covid19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate statnews.com/2020/11/09/cov… via @matthewherper
- A thread about selflessness, sacrifice and gratitude: My wife was her mom’s primary caregiver for the past 8 years, right up to her mom’s death this week. Her mom lived with us, and my wife cared for her full time through declining health.
- Peter Marks pushed out of FDA by RFK Jr. As much as I’ve been critical of some of his approval decisions, Marks’ forced exit spells doom for the FDA. This is bad, folks. Really bad. Biotech and pharma are about to enter the darkest of places.
- Did anyone in Boston just feel an earthquake?
- Folks know that I’ve spent 20 years listening to — and writing about — biotech CEOs making nonsensical, inflated claims about the benefit of their drugs. It was weird and disconcerting to hear the FDA commissioner do the same tonight.
- I can’t remember the last time I asked anyone, “Where did you go to college?” The last time might have been 30 years ago, right after I finished college. No one cares where you went to college. Educate yourself the best you can. Work hard. Keep learning.
- Today, the world gets the first real sign that a new medicine, remdesivir from Gilead Sciences, will help the world emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. Pretty awesome.
- Replying to @adamfeuersteinYesterday at the gravesite, as I hugged her, my wife asked me, “I did enough, right? She was cared for?” “Yes. Oh my, absolutely yes,” I told her. No truer words ever spoken.
- When this is over, I hope the government forgives (or pays off) student loan debt for all healthcare workers now treating Covid-19 patients.
- I reminded my daughter that before she gets in an Uber/Lyft, she must verify the make/model of the car, the license plate number and the identity of the driver. Please, if you have kids who use ride share, please do the same.
- Personal news: I am leaving TheStreet. I accepted an offer to join STAT as senior writer and National Biotech Columnist. @statnews
