My wife and I like to sit out on our patio in the evening with our dog Clementine. This is a ritual we’ve done for years. We’ve noticed something curious about sitting outdoors. My wife gets bitten by mosquitoes far more than I do. We spent a month at an Airbnb in a Costa Rican jungle a few miles from the Pacific coast back in 2018. My wife had to fight off mosquitoes and no-see-ums while I hardly noticed them.
Category: Health Reform
Monday Links
- Yglesias: Everything you want to know about combatting monkeypox, and then some.
- Monkeypox: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?
- Paxlovid rebound: when a person (like President Biden) tests positive for the coronavirus again even after initially testing negative following a round of treatment with the antiviral is more common than you think.
- CBO: Drug pricing bill will Lead to higher launch prices for new drugs.
- View this article for more information.
- CBO: Drug pricing bill will lead to 60 fewer drugs over the next three decades.
- Do hospital patients need their own in-house advocate? Covid issues
Woke Medicine is Hazardous to Your Health
Virtually all medical schools admit black and Hispanic applicants with scores on the Medical College Admission Test that would be all but disqualifying if presented by white and Asian applicants, and some schools waive the MCATs entirely for select minority students. Courses on racial justice and advocacy are flooding into medical school curricula; students are learning more about white privilege and less about cell pathology.
Heather Mac Donald in the WSJ Excellent throughout.
Friday Links
- Why are there so few Covid cases in Africa, compared to the rest of the world? Speculative
- Hospitals are still evading the law on transparency.
- Can a pharmacist deny a patient a morning-after pill?
- How the clothes you wear can affect your health. Futuristic
- More reasons not to tax people with the highest incomes. Insightful
- Are Democrats robbing Medicare to pay for Obamacare?