COVID-19 and Public Health – The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Friday Links

Posted on January 9, 2026January 9, 2026 by John C. Goodman

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Tuesday Links

Posted on January 6, 2026January 5, 2026 by John C. Goodman

The average deducible in the ACA exchanges is $5,300.
Why intermittent fasting doesn’t always work.
Is worry over climate change finally over?
“[Covid] Vaccination reduces cases by 80 percent, the direct effect. This protection spills over to close contacts, producing a household-level indirect effect about three-fourths as large as the direct effect.”
Why do some Indian tribes have more than 6 times the household income as others? Answer: the degree of economic freedom.
Since roughly 2010, young, white unmarried women in Western societies have experienced a rapid and unusually uniform shift toward Post-Modern Left-of-Center ideologies. They are also suffering from anxiety, depression, loneliness, risk behavior, feelings of fragility, and perceived threat from the social environment. Is all this connected? HT to Arnold Kling

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Thursday Links – 1 January 2026

Posted on January 1, 2026December 31, 2025 by John C. Goodman

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Monday Links

Posted on December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 by John C. Goodman

The Crapo-Cassidy plan: Eligible individuals age 18 to 49 with incomes below 700 percent of the federal poverty line would get $1,000 annually in 2026 and 2027, while those age 60 to 64 would get $1,500. Those amounts are far less than the $7,500 average deductible for bronze coverage in 2026 or the $10,600 required by the ACA’s catastrophic insurance plans.
Rural areas lost 1 in 9 physicians over a six year period.
Scott Sumner explains the Great Depression.
CDC: Covid shots decreased the risk of needing medical care in the first six months after vaccination by 76 percent in children under 4, and by 56 percent in children 5 to 17.

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