- After vaccines became available, red states had higher death rates, almost certainly as a result of lower vaccine uptake among Republicans.
- New book show how Chile’s economy became the ”jewel of Latin America.”
- Are workers more productive when they work from home?
- One thing George W. got right: PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives.
- How scientists used AI to find two antibiotics for use against the most antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
- mRNA vaccine pioneers win the Nobel Prize. (Shouldn’t’ Trump win as well?)
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Monday Links
- The US has destroyed all of its chemical weapons.
- The covid pandemic spurred a surge in new business startups.
- More on Fauci, the CIA, the lockdowns and the Wuhan lab leak.
- The average American can expect to celebrate only a single birthday in good health after age 65. (NYT)
- Using GPT-4 to predict Cardiovascular Risk. HT: Tyler
- Lifetime health care costs for your pet: $10K to $15K for a dog; $8K to $11K for a cat.
- Solution for Social Security: more sex and more death. Having more children and dying earlier would make the system solvent through 2065.
Thursday Links
- 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.
Wednesday Links
- 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)