Suffice it to say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has many detractors and is not well liked or respected by the public health community. Thus, it should come as no surprise then that the public health community is moving to set up their own recommendations outside of HHS.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Tuesday Links
- School performance was already in steep decline before Covid.
- Yglesias gives some details.
- CBO: Failure to extend ACA tax credits will cause 3.6 million Americans to lose their health insurance, and increase premiums by 7.6 percent for the over 20 million people who buy coverage on the ACA Marketplace.
Monday Links
- Interesting FCC history: How the DNC used the FCC to silence right wing radio in the past.
- Paragon: the effect of ending Covid-era subsidies for exchange plans on the chronically ill greatly exaggerated.
- Data on mass shooting incidents are overwhelmingly gang violence.
- Nearly 70% of Americans aged 65 and older will need some form of long-term care during their lifetime. The average private cost of a nursing home stay is $120,000 a year.
- Tyler Cowen: Which immigrants should we let in?
Wednesday Links
- Trump is cracking down on drug ads.
- New Census data puts the lie to America as “systemically racist.”
- About one third of the world’s population cannot afford a healthy diet.
- Can vitamin supplements extend people’s lives? No.
- A recent study of 194 countries found that 106 nations had policies requiring vaccination for at least one disease.