- CDC: alcohol related deaths rose 30% during the Covid pandemic.
- Global budgets aren’t just in Canada and Britain. The government is funding a pilot program for this country.
- Scott Sumner: Is the fed tightening too aggressively? No. “There’s almost no evidence that the Fed has tightened monetary policy at all.”
- Lancet publishes dishonest study on global warming heat deaths. (WSJ)
- The IRA bill is already killing potential cures. (WSJ)
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Friday Links
- India makes 60% of global vaccines and 20% of global generics. But how safe are they? (NYT)
- Some brokers use deceptive practice to sell Medicare Advantage plans to seniors. (NYT)
- When pulse oximeters give false reading, people die.
- Does Google discriminate against Republicans?
- Why does fentanyl kill so many people?
- Tyler Cowen defends Elon
Wednesday Links
- Richard Hanania, Tyler Cowen and Scott Sumner on a libertarian approach to Covid.
- Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Obamacare open enrollment.
- Here’s why that matters.
- The Ministry of Truth is back. HT: Tyler
- The Good Nurse is about a man who may have killed 400 patients.
- Arizona woman is arrested for feeding the needy.
Monday Links
- People have a hard time worrying about more than one thing at a time. E.g., Covid worries tend to crowd out climate change worries.
- Do congressional committee members interrupt female witnesses more than male witnesses?
- Reasons to think Covid did not have an animal origin.
- Why haven’t we found a cure for Alzheimer’s?
- Can oxygen be a substitute for antibiotics?
- How The Woman King got history wrong and why that’s controversial.
- Tyler Cowen reviews new book on insurance by Amy Finkelstein, et. al.