Demand for COVID Vaccines Expected to Get Heated — And Fast
Experts in ethics and immunization behavior say they expect attitudes toward vaccines to shift quickly from widespread hesitancy to urgent, even heated demand.
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As Hospitals Fill With COVID Patients, Medical Reinforcements Are Hard to Find
Yves here. It’s only early December and doctors and nurses are already exhausted. The grim figures in this article are already dated; Covid hospitalization just hit a new high of 100,000 in the US. How are hospitals going to keep their troops from falling over? The earliest time when conditions might be better than now […]
Read more...Rapid COVID-19 Tests Can Be Useful – But There Are Far Too Few To Put a Dent in the Pandemic
Why Covid antigen tests, which are easy to administer and produce results in less than a half hour, are not a magic bullet.
Read more...How Do You Combat Information Overreach?
A shaggy dog story, and a request for reader ideas on how to escape unreasonable requests for personal information.
Read more...OSHA Let Employers Decide Whether to Report Health Care Worker Deaths. Many Didn’t
Scores of deaths were not reported to occupational safety officials from the earliest days of the pandemic through late October.
Read more...Covid Profits of Pharmaceutical Monopolies vs Peoples’ Lives
The WTO is set to consider a proposal supported by 99 countries to waive intellectual property protection for Covid treatments.
Read more...Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Is Cheaper than Pfizer’s and Moderna’s and Doesn’t Require Supercold Temperature
Some promising news about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
Read more...The Coming Deadly Covid Winter
Extrapolating from well-advanced Covid developments leads to some ugly destinations.
Read more...To Save the Economy, Biden Must First Save Lives
More discussion of an analysis that concluded that the only way to “fix the economy” was to tackle Covid…and not hope for a vaccine bailout
Read more...Reply from Authors of “To Save the Economy, Save People First” Regarding “Lockdowns Work”
More on lockdowns as a core response to community spread of Covid-19.
Read more...To Save the Economy, Save People First: Targeted Measures and Subsidies for Cost Effective COVID-19 Abatement
Evidence on what it would take to beat Covid: lockdowns, mask mandates with teeth, tons of testing and lots of economic support.
Read more...COVID-19 Compounding Inequalities
The COVID-19 crisis may worsen inequality and push more than 70 million people into extreme poverty, according to the United Nations.
Read more...How Biden Can Protect Workers on Day 1
By using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Biden could improve worker safety during the pandemic without Congress’s help.
Read more...Ticketmaster’s Reckless, Privacy-Shredding Covid Plan to Get You in Their Seats
Ticketmaster wants to use technology to make events safer. Too bad its ideas are intrusive and medically questionable.
Read more...Home Health Aide Services for the Elderly as a Lemon Market
Some shaggy dog stories and analysis on wh the home health care aide industry performs poorly, at least here in the US.
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