Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Thursday Links
- In New York City, where wealthy families will stop at nothing for their children in a competitive private school system, elite tutors earn as much as $1 million a year.
- A first-of-its-kind bee vaccine.
- $1 million bet: Did the COVID mRNA vaccines save more lives than they killed?
- Against sports betting.
- Four ways to make government more efficient.
Wednesday Links
- “The study found that cold killed 17.4 people for every person killed by heat.”
- Trump: Ignore a lot of RFK Jr.’s past statements.
- The prices paid in 2019 by Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans in hospital outpatient departments were double those paid in physician offices for biologics, chemotherapies, and other infused cancer drugs,
- Novartis announced that its new gene therapy cancer treatment (Kymriah) will cost $475,000 for the one-time infusion. There is no charge if the treatment doesn’t work.
- The case for vaccines.
- The evolution of managed care: form doctor/hospital run HMOs to AI.
Mental Health Disorders are on the Rise, as are Unqualified Therapists
Covid and the lockdowns increased self-reported cases of anxiety and depression. People were sequestered in apartments, homes away from work and many of the services they’d come to enjoy. Many were having to work (or unable to work) while their kids were studying over Zoom. With increased demand for therapists, not all therapists are equal in skill. Rachel Hall from The Guardian reports on when therapy goes wrong, when you are cared for by an unqualified mental health practitioner.