North America is about to enter cold and flu season. Covid is on the uptick and may spread to millions of people this winter depending on how many people get a booster and how well the boosters work. Every year the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has to decide in the winter to spring which four flu strains are most likely to hit the United States next year. Strains circulating in Asia are often the ones that infect Americans, Canadians and Mexicans in the coming Winter. Thus, the flu vaccine is a cocktail of the four flu strains likely during following flu season.
Category: Direct Primary Care
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.
Thursday Links
- Cosco is offering virtual checkups for $29. Third party insurance not accepted.
- Headline: Pharma would lose loyal ally if Menendez leaves Senate. If he is so loyal, why didn’t he stop the IRA bill?
- Frequently wrong, New York Times covid reporter Apoorva Mandavilli will lecture at Harvard (alongside former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot).
- The more governments intervene to protect workers, the more unemployment there is.
- Why hospital consolidation is hurting patients and what can be done about it.
Tuesday Links
- The Board of Tea Experts, established on March 2, 1897, is finally being mothballed.
- Deborah Laufer has filed more than 600 different lawsuits —typically against small hotels — and Laufer accuses them of failing to comply with the federal disabilities law. Will the Supreme Court shut her down?
- Yglesias: Loneliness isn’t aloneness. And contra Nicholas Kristof, it is highly correlated with low incomes.
- Tyler Cowen: ten ideas on reducing the number of single parent families.