20 people to know leading Google’s most promising health bets

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Welcome to Insider Healthcare. I'm Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, and today in healthcare news:

• We found the 20 people you need to know working on healthcare at Google after it dismantled Google Health;
• A biotech presses FDA to approves its ALS drug;
• What real-world data tells us about your chances of dying from COVID-19 after vaccination.

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Meet the 20 people leading Google's most promising health bets as the company overhauls its plan to take on healthcare

• Google is going after the healthcare industry, but it's taking a new strategy.
• The search giant dismantled its health group and is scattering those projects across the company.

Here are the 20 people working on Google's biggest healthcare projects>>

Two of biotechs youngest execs are pressing the FDA to approve their promising drug for a fatal brain disease

• Amylyx has developed a drug for ALS that could slow down the disease and extend patients' lives.
• The biotech will now file for approval, following new guidance from the FDA
• The FDA had asked Amylyx for more data, but reversed course shortly after approving a controversial Alzheimer's drug.

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Getting fully vaccinated massively reduces your chance of dying from COVID-19, a new real-world study suggests

• COVID-19 accounted for 0.8% of deaths among fully vaccinated people in England, data shows.
• In unvaccinated people, COVID-19 accounted for 37% of deaths in the same period.
• The data is more evidence that vaccines significantly reduce the chance of dying from COVID-19.

Find out more>>

More stories we're reading:

• The US ranks second highest among high-income countries in terms of vaccine hesitancy, one chart shows (Insider)
• A man who called himself a "concerned citizen" at Elizabeth Holmes' trial turned out to be the father of her partner (NPR)
• Newly revealed documents show Gopuff is pushing into healthcare and testing a pharmacy in Philadelphia that delivers prescriptions in less than an hour (Insider)
• A new arm amputation procedure could make "phantom" hands seem real (Stat News)

- Lydia