Category Archives: Health care

Public Health and Private Profits Under COVID-19 Pandemic

More discussion of how the private sector is undermining responses to Covid-19.

Coronavirus Pandemic is Paving the Way for an Increase in Superbugs

The coronavirus crisis will exacerbate an existing threat to healthcare systems, around the world: the problem of antibiotic resistance.

Inequality and the Coronavirus: Destroying American Society From the Top Down

Coronavirus is exposing the severity of inequality in the US, particulary limited access to health care and the health costs of poverty.

The Coronavirus New Normal Has Only Started To Arrive

Why we aren’t even at the end of the beginning of coronavirus-induced change.

Who Benefits When the Price of Insulin Soars?

Contrary to pharmaceutical company claims, revenue from high insulin prices are going to shareholders, not R&D

Lockdown Rebelliousness: Denying that Coronavirus Is in Charge

The supposed irresistable force of the economy is losing out to the immovable object of the coronavirus.

The New Fault Lines in a Post-Globalized World

Coronavirus is smashing up the economic and political order. What sort of world comes next?

Covid-19 Diagnosis: Will We End Applying a Mosaic of Methods Worldwide?

A look at promising Covid-19 test methods, and why diagnosis approaches may wind up differing across countries.

Coronavirus Research Done Too Fast Is Testing Publishing Safeguards, Bad Science Is Getting Through

Scientific publishing is already suffering a quality control crisis, so it’s important to give a hard look at often-rushed coronavirus studies.

The Coming Battle for the COVID-19 Narrative

Will the disruption of Covid-19 deal a major blow to market ideology?

COVID-19 Crisis Threatens Beleaguered Assisted Living Industry

Unregulated assisted living facilities are becoming hotbeds of coronavirus cases.

Overloaded Morgues, Mass Graves and Infectious Remains: How Forensic Pathologists Handle the Coronavirus Dead

The handling of the dead is a major but not much discussed challenge with coronavirus.

The Misguided Discussion of “Herd Immunity”

On the large gap between what the public and the scientific/medical community think about Covid-19 immunity, including testing for it.

Martin Wolf and Wishful Thinking on Ending Coronavirus Lockdowns

It would be nice to go back to something like the old normal. But the coronavirus is still very much in charge.