Supply Chain Shortages and Inflation: How Bad Will the Disruption Become?
How the Biden Adminstration is if anything making the current supply chain mess worse.
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Officials Double Down on “Let ‘Er Rip” Strategy, Placing Undue Faith in Vaccines as Regions With High Vaccinations Suffer Infection Spikes
Public health officials are again placing too much faith in vaccines as they end key international travel restrictions.
Read more...The John Deere Strike: Organized Labor’s Turning Point?
Will the Deere strike become a watershed event, a PATCO in reverse?
Read more...Insurance Focused on Virtual Visits? The Pros and Cons of a New Twist in Health Plans
The pandemic has made patients more comfortable with telemedicine for doctor visits. Insurers are betting that some patients will now embrace new types of health coverage that encourages video visits — or outright insists on them.
Read more...Swimming With Sharks in the Maldives
Maldivians are changing their attitudes towards sharks, sparking a tourism boom. Tourists bring plastic, creating a waste disposal problem.
Read more...‘Waive the Patents’: Moderna Still Refuses to Share Covid-19 Vaccine Recipe
Modern refuses to share vaccine recipe and acts as if they have absolutely no responsibility beyond maximizing their return on investment.
Read more...Sleep and the Covid-19 Pandemic
An unsystematic survey of the effect of SARS-COV-2, the virus, on sleeping individuals; and the effect of COVID-19, the disease, on populations.
Read more...Did Labor Action Over Vaccine Mandates Compel Southwest to Cancel Thousands of Flights?
The strange story of Southwest’s operational collapse this weekend
Read more...Just Keeps Getting Worse: Services Trade Surplus, the American Dream-Not-Come-True, Worst in 10 Years. Imports Worst Ever. Trade Deficit Worst Ever
Repeat after me: trade deficits = exporting jobs. The latest results confirm how crappy US policies are.
Read more...Incomes Got Chewed Up by Inflation. Americans Spent Heroically on Goods, But Not on Services. Eviction Moratoriums & Forbearance Implicated
Consumers have made big changed to their spending patterns in response to inflation.
Read more...Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites
Covid has triggered a hospital crisis in rural American that is killing Covid and non-Covid patients.
Read more...Rikers Island: “Humanitarian Crisis” with Dead Cockroaches, Urine and Feces, Plastic Bags in Lieu of Toilets, Lack of Food and Water; Guards Call in Sick to Escape Appalling Conditions, Covid Risk
As deaths rise at Rikers, legislators and the press are having a hard look at the horrific conditions.
Read more...Vaccine-Only Mandates as a Manifestation of the Bizarre Civil War-Stoking Impulses of the Professional-Managerial Class in the US
Why the vaccine-focused approach is not likely to develop necessarily to the advantage of the Biden Administration.
Read more...Patent Buyouts Can Help Win the Race Against Coronavirus Mutations
Instead of merely obtaining the surplus vaccines of rich countries, and relying on unpredictable donations, the existing Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access initiative should acquire the most promising vaccine patents and offer free production licenses.
Read more...Public Health Experts ‘Flabbergasted’ That Biden Still Hasn’t Picked an FDA Chief
At the heart of the tension is finding a nominee who balances the agency’s dual responsibilities of protecting public health while also working with the drug, medical device and other industries to approve products and treatments for market.
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