The Fleming Myth and the Public Sector Contribution to Discovery and Development of New Cancer Drugs
Abstract, “basic research” is essential to drug discovery. It is also largely funded by the public sector.
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Why Did Covid-19 Spiral Out of Control?
Some Covid-19 sleuthing.
Read more...Why Americans Are Tiring of Social Distancing and Hand-Washing – 2 Behavioral Scientists Explain
Most people are not neurotic enough to maintain disiplines like social distancing over long periods of time.
Read more...COVID-19 in Mauritius and Other Tourist Paradises: A Progress Report
Mauritius coped well with Covid-19 despite its tiny size and the importance of tourism.
Read more...Death, Suicides, And The Pandemic Economy
The data on suicides and economic distress is more muddy than you’d expect.
Read more...U.S. Declares a Vaccine War on the World
The U.S. fumbled its coronavirus response. Its intent to hoard vaccine profits only isolates it from other countries working on remedies.
Read more...COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Surge: The Impact of Wisconsin’s In-Person Primary Vote
Yves here. Correlation is not causation, but the Wisconsin primary looks to have ushered in more Covid-19 infections. By Phillip Alvelda. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website The world is on edge at the prospect of a resurgent wave of infections. Models and speculation are rife, but facts remain scarce, which […]
Read more...Coronavirus Bad Look at Grandview Medical Center ER in Birmingham, Alabama
Coronavirus mask defiers in all the wrong places.
Read more...Political Scientist Tom Ferguson on Big Money and Social Conflicts in the Covid-19 Era
An incisive take from the no-holds-barred Tom Ferguson.
Read more...How Covid-19 is Creating a Social-Distancing Version of War
Covid-19 meets the US military and the Pentagon yields.
Read more...Nature Pimps for Fundamentally Flawed Gates-Funded “Swab Yourself” Covid-19 Test
An ambitious Bill Gates funded Covid-19 testing program called SCAN suffers from the health care version of “assume a can opener”.
Read more...Medicaid Providers At The End Of The Line For Federal COVID Funding
Neglecting facilities that serve Medicaid patients in the Covid-19 rescues puts health infrastructure for the poor at risk of collapse.
Read more...U.S. COVID-19 Contact Tracing Programs Designed for Failure, Despite Bloomberg Money; Why Can’t the U.S. Copy the Lessons of Hong Kong’s Success?
The US has turned to contact tracing as the latest panacea for slowing the spread of COVID-19. Major flaws in the design of these programs will limit their success.
Read more...Because Culture Matters, There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Exit Strategy from Covid-19 Lockdowns
Quelle surprise! Local norms play a meaningful role in Covid-19 transmission, which has implications for how to end lockdowns.
Read more...Coronavirus Dashboard: Updating the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
Parsing some US coronavirus data.
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