- Tyler Cowen compares Classical Liberalism with the New Right.
- The nation’s capital now has an estimated 120 homeless tent cities and their growth shows no signs of slowing down.
- Uber Eats to deliver marijuana in Canada.
- More details on the lab-created (and much more dangerous) omicron virus. Are scientists playing Russian roulette?
- ARPA is the protégé of DARPA – aimed at game changing innovations in medicine.
- Our health care data infrastructure is broken. What difference does that make?
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- Even though drugs can be a highly effective therapy, most states prohibit psychologists from prescribing medications for their mental health patients.
- Pandemic spending waste: only one quarter of the jobs supported by PPP funds would have disappeared without the program and the funds rarely reached their intended target of rank-and-file workers.
- Paragon report: Medicaid now has more than 15 million ineligible recipients.
- New medical tech claim: a complete genome mapping for$100.
- How that could change medicine.
- Progressive Caucus wants to change the name of Medicare Advantage to curtail its popularity.
Friday Links
- More Republicans than Democrats died from Covid.
- 60 years ago, Pres. Kennedy sought to “end cancer as we know it”; then VP Biden vowed to do the same; and now, as president, Biden has reignited the “Cancer Moonshot” he launched under Obama. Kim Bellard explains why we haven’t won the war.
- For putting a value on quality adjusted years of life.
- Why can’t the media tell the truth about hurricanes and climate change?
- Scott Sumner on neoliberalism.
- Scrutiny of retinal and ECG images shows that artificial intelligence can go way beyond human capabilities in health care. HT: Tyler
- David Henderson on Anthony Fauci.
Friday Links
- Health Execs behaving badly.
- The increase in mortality among middle-aged, non-Hispanic whites is almost entirely driven by the bottom 10% of the education distribution.
- University of Rochester study: the main arguments against telemedicine are all wrong.
- Why can’t the media tell the truth about climate change?
- Study: The overall use of the twenty-three “low-value” medical services across all fifty-one states amounted to $3.7 billion over 10 years. At less than 1/10 of 1% of overall spending, not clear why we should be worried.
- Federal advisory group recommends that all Americans 19 to 64 be screened for “anxiety.”
- No diversity here: Women who get “long Covid” outnumber men by as much as four to one.