- Drug overdose deaths fell for the first time in five years.
- Seven reasons the country will become more conservative over the next ten years.
- Not enough babies: the entire world has fallen below the replacement rate.
- A solution to the doctor shortage: expand the use of physician’s assistants.
- MaskZero is the only product in the world that can kill covid-19 varmints and protect the wearer against other viruses. Kotlikoff interviews the inventor.
- New York Post: Fauci lied.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Friday Links
- Arnold Kling: The real cause of the 2008 financial crisis: bad government policies.
- Instead of raising taxes on the rich, why don’t we eliminate spending on the rich?
- Why not use $90 billion in unspent covid money to reduce the $1.7 trillion deficit?
- How studies of Covid vaccine effectiveness have been manipulated.
- Are psychedelics a solution for chronic pain?
- UK refuses to sign onto global vaccine treaty.
- In 2020, over 260,000 immigrants with undergraduate health care degrees such as nursing were underemployed.
Tuesday Links
- Consuming half a tablespoon of olive oil every day is associated with a 28% lower risk of dying of dementia.
- Less than half of all workers plan to work past age 62.
- An argument for not giving free health care to illegals.
- Trump v. Biden on the response to Covid.
- Getting rich by doing good: The nonprofit University of Pittsburgh Medical Center CEO makes $12 million a year.
Tuesday Links
- Some 23 million households receive broadband subsidies, which is more than the number on food stamps.
- Latest Covid vaccine study: the vaccine has no benefits for children or for healthy adults. There are adverse risks. This is based on the largest study to date – covering 99 million people.
- Upcoding explained.
- Between 2014 and 2020, the death rates for Black children and teenagers rose by about 37 percent, and for Native American youths by about by about 22 percent — compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.
- Trustees Update: The Medicare trust fund will be exhausted in 2036, and the combined Social Security trust fund will become exhausted in 2035.