The device, created in the teen’s bedroom, has impressed heavyweights in Orange County’s medtech industry. … Dr. Michelle Khine, who teaches biomedical engineering at UCI, began personally using the device two years ago. She was the first doctor to alert the local medical community about [Kamran] Ansari’s work and now is on the company’s board of advisors. “I believe we will see in 20 years that Kamran is going to be on the level of Elon Musk or Steve Jobs,” Khine wrote in a recommendation letter.

Twitter users were most likely to retweet public health agency tweets that contained practical information on the medical effects of COVID-19, how to mitigate those effects, and the status of the pandemic, according to a study published today in PLOS One. Led by researchers at the State University of New York in Albany and the University of California, Irvine, the study involved analyzing 149,335 tweets from 690 Twitter accounts of public health, emergency management, and elected officials across the United States from Feb 1 to Apr 30.