Amid a Pandemic, a Health Care Algorithm Shows Promise and Peril
A private health data service/vendor has developed a triage algo in a rapid and non-transparent manner. Why aren’t more doctors concerned?
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Larry Summers Doubles Down On His Inflation Prediction
Unfortunately, Larry Summers still gets attention, most recently for inflation hawkery. Fortunately, it’s not hard to see through him.
Read more...A Neoliberalism Meets Covid Vignette: Barriers to Getting a Vaccine, Publix Edition
We had to jump through way too many hoops to get a Covid vaccine at Publix. Is this normal for pharmacies?
Read more...Why Biden Is Not a Transformational President
Biden is not living up to his PR. The implications are significant, given the need for significant change.
Read more...Despite Federal Moratorium, Eviction Rates Returning to Pre-Pandemic Levels
The eviction process is restarting, even when it is premature under the law. What will the collateral damage be?
Read more...CDC Recommends Masking for School Staff, Accepts Aerosol Transmission (Without Using the Word)
CDC inches toward complete acceptance of aerosol transmission with improved Covid prevention strategies for schools.
Read more...In the Tales Told by Sewage, Public Health and Privacy Collide
Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in the U.S. Will Covid change that?
Read more...Slack in the Economy, Not Inflation, Should Be Bigger Worry
Despite fear-mongering about inflation, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand.
Read more...Growing Cotton: One Small Sustainable Solution to the World Plastics Problem
The Khamir NGO demonstrates that kala cotton can be grown without copious use of water, pesticides, and chemical fesrtilizers.
Read more...As Covid Ravages Poor Nations, Pharma Vaccine Profiteering Has Created 9 New Billionaires
“These billionaires are the human face of the huge profits many pharmaceutical corporations are making from the monopoly they hold on these vaccines.”
Read more...Big Tech Goes All In to Thwart Right to Repair Initiatives
The FTC and more than two dozen states mull right to repair initiatives; Big Tech companies mount a ;pbbying offensive.
Read more...Charging Indians for COVID Vaccines is Bad, Letting Vaccine Producers Charge What They Like is Unconscionable
India’s vaccine policy has opened the flood gates for a vulgar form of predatory capitalism to take the stage amid a raging human tragedy.
Read more...Why Your Dentist Might Seem Pushy
During the pandemic, many have deferred visiting their dentists, increasing pressure on dentists to push unnecessary expensive treatment.
Read more...An Indictment of US Covid Policy
How US Covid policy is producing far more deaths and disability here and around the world than necessary.
Read more...Put People Before Profits for Covid Progress
More discussion of Covid vaccine, testing and treatment apartheid, thanks to private sector profiteering.
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