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Category: COVID-19 and Public Health

Wednesday Links

Posted on January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Blue Cross say its reforms would save $767B over 10 years. Chief among them: pay the same price for medical care, regardless of where it is delivered. That means a facility can’t bill a higher rate to Medicare, just because it has a link to a hospital.
  • To save a child from a rare disease, a one-time injection costs $1.7 million. (NYT) I don’t have a problem with the cost. But who is going to pay for it?
  • Should doctors bill for answering patients’ emails? (NYT) I say, yes. Other professionals bill by time. Why should doctors do the same?
  • Ten myths About nutrition. Myth No 1: fresh is better than frozen, canned or dried fruits and vegetables.  (NYT)
  • 3 problems with Covid boosters: (1) the virus is evolving much faster than the vaccines can be updated; (2) vaccines have hard-wired our immune systems to respond to the original Wuhan strain, so we churn out fewer antibodies that neutralize variants targeted by updated vaccines; (3) antibodies rapidly wane after a few months.  (WSJ)
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FDA to Decide Whether Covid Boosters Become an Annual Ritual Like Flu Shots

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Devon Herrick

Did you get your flu vaccine this year? How about last year? For me it’s been a few years. As I’ve written before, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must decide six months in advance which strains of influenza circulating in Asia are likely to hit North America the following winter. The flu vaccine is a cocktail of four different flu strains designed to combat the strains likely to infect Americans. Sometimes the CDC guesses right, and the United States experiences a mild flu season. In other years a strain that nobody expected somehow becomes dominant and spreads throughout the US and flu is widespread.

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The Cost of Lockdowns

Posted on January 20, 2023 by John C. Goodman

A new Stanford study looking at the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress found “eighth-grade math fell for every state, with a national average decline of eight NAEP scale score points” or enough to wipe out all the gains made since 2000. So much for “no child left behind,” and other slogans that were going to fix our public schools.

We will continue to pay for the lockdowns for years to come. “Students on average face 2 to 9 percent lower lifetime income” depending on where they went to school and the states are estimated “to face a gross domestic product that is 0.6 to 2.9 percent lower each year for the remainder of the twenty-first century.”

From the Committee to Unleash Prosperity

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Friday Links

Posted on January 20, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Reason (magazine) investigation: CDC used Facebook to silence Covid dissent.
  • More than 1,000 nursing homes reached a 75% infection rate during the Covid pandemic.
  • For: more off label uses of existing drugs.
  • IRA bill is already affecting drug development – negatively.
  • What it will cost to attend this year’s Super Bowl game: almost $9,000.
  • The Manchin/Capito Trust Act would force Congress to do what it doesn’t want to do: Tackle our unfunded entitlement liabilities.
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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