- After vaccines became available, red states had higher death rates, almost certainly as a result of lower vaccine uptake among Republicans.
- New book show how Chile’s economy became the ”jewel of Latin America.”
- Are workers more productive when they work from home?
- One thing George W. got right: PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives.
- How scientists used AI to find two antibiotics for use against the most antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
- mRNA vaccine pioneers win the Nobel Prize. (Shouldn’t’ Trump win as well?)
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Officials Use a Mosquito Factory to Control Mosquito-Borne Diseases
My wife is a mosquito magnet. It seems like she complains of getting bit every time she goes out to hand water plants during the summer. For millions of people around the world, a mosquito bite isn’t just an irritation that is itchy for a day and then forgotten. I have a close relative that went camping years ago and caught West Nile Virus from a mosquito bite. About half of people who have had West Nile suffer from long-term problems due to the infection. Mosquitoes are the mostly deadly living thing that preys on humans.
Monday Links
- The US has destroyed all of its chemical weapons.
- The covid pandemic spurred a surge in new business startups.
- More on Fauci, the CIA, the lockdowns and the Wuhan lab leak.
- The average American can expect to celebrate only a single birthday in good health after age 65. (NYT)
- Using GPT-4 to predict Cardiovascular Risk. HT: Tyler
- Lifetime health care costs for your pet: $10K to $15K for a dog; $8K to $11K for a cat.
- Solution for Social Security: more sex and more death. Having more children and dying earlier would make the system solvent through 2065.
Saturday Links
- Marriage is a class thing: roughly half of all births to women without four-year college degrees now happen without married fathers.
- Should doctors have to pay the insurers a fee in order to get paid what they are owed?
- Avoiding a hospital stay may improve your odds of survival.
- Intergenerational poverty: 17% of Asian children living in households with incomes below or near the poverty line were poor in adulthood, compared with 25% (Latino), 29% (White), 37% (Black), and 46% (Native American)
- Health Savings Account bills being marked up in the W & M Committee in the House.