- Denmark’s system of no-fault medical malpractice.
- Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people.
- AAF: “Taken as a whole, the CR looks like a budgetary nothingburger, whose primary virtue is that it (hopefully) garners enough bipartisan support to avoid a pointless government shutdown.”
- Why did the two scientists in charge of approving Pfizer’s covid booster vaccine abruptly resign?
- What to know about the Critical Medicines Act.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Thursday Links
- Yglesias on Social Security’s dead beneficiaries.
- The controversy behind the “shaken baby syndrome.”
- Why doesn’t Trump brag about his greatest health care success.
- Charles Hooper: There is nothing wrong with Red Dye No. 3
- Singer: “CDC causes patients to endure needless pain and suffering.”
- 40% of Americans think Covid is still a threat.
Tuesday Links
- Scientists estimate that tens of trillions of viruses live inside of us. (NYT)
- The US would have had 1.6 million fewer deaths if it had managed covid the way Sweden did.
- Between 2019-24, the EU approved 13,000 new laws and regulations while the U.S. imposed 5,500.
- The United States imports roughly one-fifth of its pharmaceutical preparations by dollar value from China and India combined.
- Marco Rubio: After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.
Public Health Was Never About Medicine
Public health has a long history of success. Sanitation is chief among them. Yes, sanitation reduced disease.
Read more at: Where did U.S. public health go wrong? The article was originally published in Undark.