Does the “Sahm Rule” mean that we are headed toward a recession?
Joe Manchin’s bipartisan energy bill sounds lie a real winner. (NYT)
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Travel Spreads Disease, but Only if the Mode is Fast or Passengers Numerous
Between speaking engagements, work travel and vacations I was probably on a plane more than a dozen times a year. Over the years I noticed that I was far more likely to come down with a cold or the flu a few days after a flight than times when I had not traveled. One time I spoke on Obamacare for the Denver Federalist Society with plans to stay over and ski Arapahoe Basin. Two days later I had a severe cold. I could have been the unwitting vector who helped spread a virus from far flung places to Dallas.
Tuesday Links
- How political are the medical journals?
- Cato symposium on covid.
- Milliman: the IRA law will increase drug cost for 5.7 million people.
- “Worldwide equality has grown continuously since 1990 for life expectancy, internet access, and education… Incomes became less equal until the mid‐2000s, but income equality has improved considerably since then.”
- Nonprofit hospital execs are raking in millions.
Monday Links
- What do Democrats have against marriage?
- California Blocks Life-Sustaining Telehealth Treatment.
- Raj Chetty, et. al.: For children in the U.S. born between 1978 and 1992, income class gaps grew and race gaps shrank, and similarly for non-monetary outcomes such as educational attainment, standardized test scores, and mortality rates.
- “Every attorney general fights for state power and police prerogatives. It’s part of the job. But over and over again, [Kamala] Harris went beyond the call of duty, fighting for harsher sentences, larger bail requirements, longer prison terms, more prosecution of petty crimes, greater criminal justice involvement in low-income and minority communities, less due process for people in the system, less transparency, and less accountability for bad cops.”
- “The cost of wearing a mask for two weeks, for me personally, is higher than the benefit of a 3% reduction in the risk of getting a cold.”
- Expanding scope of practice authority for dental hygienists: “Overall the effects were modest but the individuals who benefited most from this policy change were lower income individuals.”