New clues have emerged in the mystery surrounding the creation of Dr. Antik Bose the fake doctor with an elaborate social media profile full of fancy cars and ostentatious homes who purported to be the author of scientific research connected to Penumbra, the controversial medical device company.
Short seller Gabriel Grego of Quintessential Capital Management launched a short attack on Penumbra more than a month ago, claiming the catheters it produces for stroke patients were not safe.
Late Tuesday afternoon, the Food and Drug Administration said that it had requested Penumbra voluntarily remove the catheter, called the JET 7 Xtra Flex, from the market to protect patients. The FDA said it has received over 200 medical device reports, including 14 unique patient deaths, related to the catheter. Penumbra has begun the recall.
The coronavirus behind the pandemic presents some vexing dualities.
It’s dangerous enough that it dispatches patients to hospitals in droves and has killed more than 1.6 million people, but mild enough that most people shrug it off. It blocks one arm of the immune system from responding as it takes hold, but lures other parts into dangerous hyperdrive. It homes in on cells high up in the airway think the nose and throat but also burrows deeper into the lungs, maximizing infectiousness without ceding how sick it can make people.
“It’s sort of right in that sweet spot,” said Kristian Andersen, an infectious disease expert at Scripps Research Institute.
By Lizette Love
Dec 10, 2020
There is a house In Redmond known for putting on incredible holiday light displays, and this year, they are raising money for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research – over $40,000 so far.
Josh Adams and Bruce Haldors strung over 2 ½ miles of cables, with over 70 thousand lights, and four 50 pound CO2 tanks all synchronized to music.