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Category: COVID-19 and Public Health

Thursday Links

Posted on March 13, 2025March 13, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • 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.
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Tuesday Links

Posted on March 11, 2025March 11, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • 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.
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Public Health Was Never About Medicine

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Devon Herrick

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.

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Thursday Links

Posted on March 6, 2025March 5, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  •  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.
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