Health industry leaders and many patient advocates are pushing Congress and the Biden administration to preserve the pandemic-fueled expansion of telehealth.
Read more...“We want them to go back to” a normal interest rate environment.
Read more...Just as an uneven approach to containing the coronavirus led to a greater toll for Black and Latino communities, the inconsistent data guiding vaccination efforts may be leaving the same groups out on vaccines
Read more...Increases in hunger and food insecurity under Covid are significant, yet have gone largely under the radar.
Read more...Unemployment as a balancing act between workers ‘fearing the sack’ and employers ‘fearing the quit,” with employers usually winning out.
Read more...One of our periodic reader queries as to what they make of the state of the economy based on local sightings.
Read more...The pandemic exacerbated intolerable poverty and economic distress in Colombia. As repression mounts, is there any way out?
Read more...Yet more types of long Covid damage, this one particularly debilitating.
Read more...How World-Bank-sponsored microlending produced widespread misery in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: debt collectors use violence.
Read more...Katerra, one of the rare unicorns with a real or at least plausible business, fell to Covid. Lawsuits will fly.
Read more...Who’d have thunk it? Public health incompetence fuels distrust in official recommendations, like vaccines.
Read more...Today is Memorial Day in the U.S. and a bank holiday in the UK. Best wishes to U.S. and UK readers for a pleasant holiday.
Read more...“I think we are absolutely fucked. I think this country is heading for disaster. I think we’re going to kill thousands of people.”
Read more...A private health data service/vendor has developed a triage algo in a rapid and non-transparent manner. Why aren’t more doctors concerned?
Read more...Unfortunately, Larry Summers still gets attention, most recently for inflation hawkery. Fortunately, it’s not hard to see through him.
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