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Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.
Hey Watson: How Do We Save a Floundering AI Program?
STAT dissected the disintegration of IBM s Watson Health, which was recently put up for sale after a few years of hype and promises to transform artificial intelligence (AI) within healthcare. Mismanagement, rafts of layoffs and key departures, a culture of fear, and putting marketing ahead of science doomed the multibillion dollar venture, the news outlet found. It never released a dedicated cloud platform to serve key clients in health care or enable its AI engine to analyze data from several acquired businesses, defaulting on a core promise of its enterprise,
COVID Patients Getting Too Many Antibiotics?
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Minnesota Nursing Board Drops Investigation of Fired Nurse
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Single doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines led to substantial reduction in risk of illness for people 70 and up, though less than previously seen with two doses, according to an unreviewed manuscript posted online by British researchers Monday.
While the U.S. focuses on Western companies vaccines, much of the world is quietly relying on shots from China. (
AP)
Merck, which dropped out of the COVID vaccine race after its candidate flopped, is reportedly offering to manufacture Johnson & Johnson s. (
Washington Post)
As of Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. EST, the unofficial COVID-19 toll in the U.S. stood at 28,664,722 cases and 514,660 deaths up 58,545 and 1,568, respectively, over the previous 24 hours.