Ken Frazier is joining
General Catalystas its chairman of health assurance initiatives, a role the venture capital firm created to ramp up its investments in healthcare and pharma.
Frazier just recently stepped down from his previous role as CEO of Merck, where he spent nearly a decade encouraging the pharma giant to prioritize research and pursue novel vaccines and therapeutics.
At General Catalyst, he’ll be laying out strategy for the firm’s healthcare initiatives, fostering partnerships between healthcare and pharma and targeting health equity opportunities. He’ll also be in control of its $600 million Health Assurance Fund which was unveiled back in April.
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The effects of coronavirus on the heart aren’t fully known.
Along with all the other unknowns about the coronavirus is whether it has long-term effects on the heart.
Dr. Jeffrey Goldberger, a cardiologist and chief of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, says many COVID-19 survivors even those who experienced mild or no symptoms have ongoing heart inflammation as a result of their infections. Complications may include arrhythmia or heart failure.
“We don’t know for sure how this is going to heal. Everything about this virus is sort of new,” Goldberger says. “In five years, are we going to be seeing people who had COVID and now have some lingering scarring in their heart and are at risk for arrhythmia? It’s possible.”
Also on Friday, hospital workers began offering vaccines to local police and firefighters, Kendust said.
Fort Walton Beach Medical Center had received an initial allotment of 2,100 doses of vaccine, according to McDaniel. She said North Okaloosa Medical Center in Crestview received 900 doses and Niceville s Twin Cities Hospital obtained 300 doses.
As of Thursday, North Okaloosa had inoculated 202 individuals, among them 142 staff members. Twin Cities vaccinated 210 people, 159 of whom were staff members, McDaniel said.
Under order of Gov. Ron DeSantis, the hospitals were required to vaccinate those staff and frontline workers who requested the shot, Kendust said. At this time the hospitals are not providing vaccinations to patients or the general public.
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