- 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.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
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.
Thursday Links
- Estimates of the percentage of Medicare costs that arise from patients in the last year of life range from 13% to 25%, with the latest estimates tending toward the higher number.
- RFK Jr. has become pro-vaccine.
- “Under the TCJA, each income group received a tax cut, but the highest-income groups received the smallest cuts relative to their total tax burden.”
- Less than half of Medicaid recipients work enough to comply with a work requirement.
- Ken Thorpe on why the IRA bill could hurt chronic patients.
- It’s been a long time since we have seen an execution buy firing squad. (WaPo) I’ve always thought it is the manly way to go.