More Hospitals Nearing Breaking Point as Covid Spikes; Skrimping on Nurses’ Pay Made Bad Situation Worse
Nurses get a lot of lip service, but not enough pay or respect, and that contrasted with Covid risks has led to many quitting.
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This Reddit Lament Sums Up Wonderfully What Lots of Home Buyers Will Grapple with as Housing Market “Normalizes” and Work from Home Fizzles
As Covid-exodus home purchases peters out, over-eager buyers are waking up with hangovers.
Read more...The Best Policies to Fight Pandemics: Five Lessons from the Literature So Far
Mining various studies on pandemic interventions to see which look most effective.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Six: With No Hope of Real Profits, Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics
Uber continues to hemorrhage cash and rack up impressive negative operating margins, yet the press eats up its accounting misdirection.
Read more...Eric Topol Discusses Covid Vaccines Not Meeting Expectations, Breakthrough Cases Sicker
The data on US Covid cases and deaths are bad enough that members of the science establishment like Eric Topol are questioning the vaccines
Read more...Hoisted from E-Mail: Covid Death Undercounts, but How Large?
Yet another Covid data failure.
Read more...Biotechnology Greed Is Prolonging the Pandemic. It’s Inexcusable.
Government is failing when it stands pat in the face of “your money or your life” level corporate greed, now on display in this pandemic.
Read more...Does the Tuskegee Experiment Really Explain Black Vaccination Rates?
A data analysis disproves the liberal myth that the Tuskegee experiment is why black vaccination rates lag, as opposed to (gah!) class.
Read more...“Potentially Very Bad”: Lots of New Covid Variants in New York City Rats
The officialdom is ignoring a possible dire Covid risk if it materializes: new variants and mutations in rats jumping to humans.
Read more...Central Banks Must Address Pandemic Challenges
Central banks in developing countries must use monetary policy to enhance fiscal space and support relief, recovery and transformation.
Read more...Sloppy Pfizer Booster Clinical Trial Consent Form Provides Way to Exclude Reactions That Require Emergency Care
The Pfizer consent form for a clinical of its booster shot is troubling from a participants and public health persepctive.
Read more...If Obama’s “Pandemic Playbook” Was So Great, Why Isn’t Biden Following It?
Bullet points and tables can’t compensate for years of disinvestment.
Read more...Is the UK Back in Lockdown?
Another theory about the apparent decline in UK Covid cases right after Freedom Day.
Read more...Cuomo’s Incoherent “Come Back En Masse” Strategy Ignores Delta Dangers
Cuomo, like his Team Dem allies, insists the vaccines will allow him to stay the reopening course when Delta is throwing a big money wrench
Read more...CDC Reversal on Masks, Vaccinated as Covid Spreaders, While Boosters Look to Be Coming Late and Not Hugely Effective
If you weren’t worried about Covid, you should be, between rising infections and evidence of CDC incompetence.
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