- “While life expectancies around the world have generally been rising, Russia’s life expectancies have not risen for about a half-century.”
- Do higher fertility rates produce higher economic growth?
- AAF: “We know tariffs on pharmaceuticals are bad.”
- Trump think tank: tariffs can lower drug prices.
- Covid study: vaccinated 6x more likely to be hospitalized than unvaxxed.
- ChatGPT’s o3 scores 136 on the Norway Mensa IQ test.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
NYT: Families Increasingly Want Cameras to Monitor Nursing Home Residents
Many of my neighbors have Ring doorbell cameras to monitor the comings and goings of people around their property. Increasingly people with loved ones in nursing homes are installing cameras to monitor the care of their family members.
Friday Links
- 400 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with some form of long Covid. (NYT)
- Congressional Republican are busy taking down Biden Administration regulations.
- Guess who is one of the largest users of the H-2B temporary visa program for seasonal workers? Donald Trump and his resort properties.
- The Biden Pill Penalty: shots or infusions can be in the market for 13 years before being subjected to government price setting, while cutting-edge ‘small molecule’ medicines, which typically come in pill or capsule form, are subject to price setting after only 9 years on the market.
- Haislmaier: If patients secure a service below a reference price, they should be able to deposit the savings in an HSA. (Something I think we recommended about a decade ago.)
- California to spend $8.4 billion this year on health care for illegal aliens.