The Lasting Impact of the Covid Crisis on Economic Potential
A look at how Covid has damaged the economy and estimating the effect.
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Covax Misses its 2021 Delivery Target – What’s Gone Wrong in the Fight Against Vaccine Nationalism?
Conversation.
The latest supply forecast for Covax – the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world – suggests that accelerating vaccination in low-income countries looks unlikely.
Wolf Richter: Business Travel, Conventions, Office Occupancy Stuck in Collapse: Been so Long, People Forgot What Old Normal Was
Hotel business travel revenues expected to be down by 80% at top 20 destinations in 2021.
Read more...Over Half of States Have Rolled Back Public Health Powers in Pandemic
In the midst of the pandemic, more than half of U.S. states have passed legislation taking away the powers state and local officials use to protect the public against infectious diseases.
Read more...Forceful Vaccine Messages Backfire With Holdouts – How Can It Be Done Better?
Health communication researchers have found that simple changes to message wording can make a big difference.
Read more...18 Vaccine Experts, Including Top FDA Scientists, Publish Review in The Lancet Saying Current Evidence Doesn’t Support Need for COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters for the Fully Vaccinated
Top international vaccine experts contend current evidence does not support a need for boosters for the fully vaccinated general population at this time and recommending instead directing doses to previously unvaccinated populations.
Read more...Biden’s Speech on Covid Vaccine Mandates, Annotated
A very close reading of Biden’s speech on vaccine mandates, and the plan on which he has staked his Presidency.
Read more...With 38 Million Facing Food Insecurity, Hunger in US Soared by Nearly 9% in 2020
The US avoided mass starvation in 2020 mostly because the federal government stepped in to dramatically increase food and cash aid.
Read more...US as Failed State: Covid Booster Shot Mess
The booster situation has developed not necessarily to the Biden Administration’s advantage.
Read more...As US Prepares to Ban Ivermectin for Covid-19, More Countries in Asia Begin Using It
The information war takes a dark turn as the corporate media transitions from misinformation and obfuscation to outright lies and fabrication.
Read more...Allow Least Developed Countries to Develop
Optimal economic policy for LDCs requires their goverments to resist aping Washington and OECD fads.
Read more...Mask Mandates Save Lives
Who’d have thunk it? Those crazy doctors in operating rooms are on to something. Masks work.
Read more...Lack of a Vaccine Mandate Becomes Competitive Advantage in Hospital Staffing Wars
Why most hospitals aren’t imposing vaccine mandates.
Read more...Marin County School Superspreader Event: Another Scientific Communications Debacle from CDC (and the Press)
Just because the CDC seems to have finally accepted aerosols doesn’t mean they’ve stopped butchering the science or their messaging.
Read more...The Coming School Opening Covid Train Wreck
Covid warning for the fall: assume the brace position.
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