The Jobs Report is a Mess, December Will Be Messier
The Nov. 14 cut-off kept most of the Covid spike impact from the jobs data. And there’s underying decay due to globalization.
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Women and the Middle-Aged Taking Brunt of Covid Employment Losses
While the Covid employment picture has unquestionably improved, don’t kid yourself into thinking that it is good.
Read more...NYC Landlords Suing Pandemic-Slammed Small Businesses by the Hundreds for Missed Rent
Pandemic-starved businesses are facing off against landlords who want rent paid. New York City illustrates some of the legal and practical issues.
Read more...As Hospitals Fill With COVID Patients, Medical Reinforcements Are Hard to Find
Yves here. It’s only early December and doctors and nurses are already exhausted. The grim figures in this article are already dated; Covid hospitalization just hit a new high of 100,000 in the US. How are hospitals going to keep their troops from falling over? The earliest time when conditions might be better than now […]
Read more...Rapid COVID-19 Tests Can Be Useful – But There Are Far Too Few To Put a Dent in the Pandemic
Why Covid antigen tests, which are easy to administer and produce results in less than a half hour, are not a magic bullet.
Read more...OSHA Let Employers Decide Whether to Report Health Care Worker Deaths. Many Didn’t
Scores of deaths were not reported to occupational safety officials from the earliest days of the pandemic through late October.
Read more...Covid Profits of Pharmaceutical Monopolies vs Peoples’ Lives
The WTO is set to consider a proposal supported by 99 countries to waive intellectual property protection for Covid treatments.
Read more...Nathan Tankus: What the Hell is Going On With CARES Act “Funds”?
Trying to make sense of CARES Act gimmickry.
Read more...Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Is Cheaper than Pfizer’s and Moderna’s and Doesn’t Require Supercold Temperature
Some promising news about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
Read more...The Coming Deadly Covid Winter
Extrapolating from well-advanced Covid developments leads to some ugly destinations.
Read more...To Save the Economy, Biden Must First Save Lives
More discussion of an analysis that concluded that the only way to “fix the economy” was to tackle Covid…and not hope for a vaccine bailout
Read more...College Presidents Fail to Mobilize to Protect Students from Covid-19
A missed opportunity in the universities
Read more...Reply from Authors of “To Save the Economy, Save People First” Regarding “Lockdowns Work”
More on lockdowns as a core response to community spread of Covid-19.
Read more...Fear of Flying Is a COVID-Era Conundrum
Airlines say it’s safe to fly during the Covid pandemic. Is it?
Read more...To Save the Economy, Save People First: Targeted Measures and Subsidies for Cost Effective COVID-19 Abatement
Evidence on what it would take to beat Covid: lockdowns, mask mandates with teeth, tons of testing and lots of economic support.
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