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Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta - Sepsis kills more people in American hospitals than heart attacks. 350,000 deaths a year, and the reason is brutally simple: the early warning signs are almost invisible.
A slightly elevated heart rate. A small temperature shift. A lab value drifting in the wrong direction. Each one looks like noise on a busy ward. By the time the pattern is obvious to a human, the patient is hours into a cascade toward organ failure, and every hour of delayed antibiotics raises mortality.
Tampa General built a system on Palantir's Foundry that watches roughly 1,000 inpatients continuously. Vitals, labs, medication records, clinician notes, all scanned in real time for the pattern no single nurse can see across 12 beds at 3am. When risk crosses a threshold, a rapid response team gets paged. Humans still make every treatment decision. The software just compresses detection from hours to minutes.
The results since 2022: overall sepsis mortality cut in half, 48-hour deaths down 68%, length of stay down 30%, roughly 900 lives saved. At one hospital.
Now run the national math. There are about 6,100 hospitals in the US. If even the 500 largest matched these numbers, you'd be looking at tens of thousands of lives a year from a single use case. The treatment for sepsis hasn't changed. Antibiotics and fluids, same as decades ago. The entire gain comes from starting them earlier.
The hardest problem in medicine was never the cure. It was noticing in time. 
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Polymarket @Polymarket
JUST IN: Florida hospital reveals Palantir software has cut sepsis deaths by more than half since it was installed.
https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2064874758261637517

Aerobility @Aerobility - As Coventry Airport winds up operations, Aerobility Flyer Kevin Arblaster and Dave Burns took one last trip down memory lane to say farewell to this well loved site. 
https://www.aerobility.com/news/2026/farewell-coventry-airport
https://x.com/Aerobility/status/2065011404592099453

Amber Smith @AmberSmithUSA - My thoughts on the Apache that was shot down by Iran:
I cannot begin to explain how lucky that Apache crew was that was shot down. Yes, UXOs happen, but that is just part of the luck (especially since it was on fire!). 
Apaches have a tandem cockpit, which means the pilots sit one in front of the other, like a fighter jet, rather than side by side like most helicopters. 
The fact that the drone hit between the two pilots without actually hitting one of the pilots is just wild…there isn’t that much room for that not to happen. 
Then, having to ditch in the Strait of Hormuz after a drone crashes into you and your helicopter is on fire with flames likely filling your line of sight. Sounds like they likely did power-on ditching procedures, but once they jettison the canopy and hit the water things happen fast. Helicopters roll when they hit the water and start to fill up with water.  It’s very disorienting and the water is dark. You also still have to worry about the rotor blades. 
When train for this. We refer to it as “dunker training.” But in the span of most standard Army pilots careers, they usually only complete the initial training, not the annual follow on training that is preferred. 
The pilots were able to get out and find each other and wait in the water for two hours while a drone boat came and rescued them…. Technology that those pilots likely didn’t even know existed until it picked them up.
A lot of things that could have and likely should have gone wrong, didn’t. Things very easily could have ended much differently.
Very grateful those pilots are ok.   
https://x.com/AmberSmithUSA/status/2064750371449577535
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