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Category: COVID-19 and Public Health

Thursday Links

Posted on September 28, 2023September 27, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Cosco is offering virtual checkups for $29. Third party insurance not accepted.
  • Headline: Pharma would lose loyal ally if Menendez leaves Senate. If he is so loyal, why didn’t he stop the IRA bill?
  • Frequently wrong, New York Times covid reporter Apoorva Mandavilli will lecture at Harvard (alongside former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot).
  • The more governments intervene to protect workers, the more unemployment there is.
  • Why hospital consolidation is hurting patients and what can be done about it.
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Wednesday Links

Posted on September 27, 2023September 26, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • The new Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are formulated to a particular variant that is currently giving rise to only 3% of covid infections.
  • Paragon: “We estimate the ACA led to only 1.6 million more Americans with private health insurance despite $60 billion in annual subsidies — an … annual cost of roughly $36,800 for each additional private-insurance enrollee.”
  • Neanderthal DNA in modern humans has been linked to serious hand disease, the shape of people’s noses and various other human traits.
  • Study: People with positive beliefs around getting older lived seven and a half years longer than those who felt negatively about it. (NYT)
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Monday Links

Posted on September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Health gains from key prescription drugs.
  • Steve Henke, et. al., skewer a new Royal Society report on Covid-19.
  • Health Affairs study:  employers lack leverage to negotiate lower prices. Have they never heard of reference pricing?
  • CDC: we are losing the battle against obesity. I thought we lost it a long time ago.
  • Inequities at the doctors office: is it because the patients don’t speak up for themselves?
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Wednesday Links

Posted on September 20, 2023September 20, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Covid booster tested mice – what we know.
  • The cost of Biden’s attempts to undo Trump’s deregulations: 15.3% of household income for the bottom one-fifth of the income distribution, but only 2.2% for the top fifth.
  • Gene Steuerle: it’s not clear there has been any slow down in the growth of health care spending.
  • Over the last half-century or so, the median household has seen income gains of less than 1% per year.
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