Preventive policies, containment strategies, and early responses are more efficient, cost-effective, and manageable than combatting a full-scale infectious pandemic outbreak.
Read more...Hiring has become difficult because some McJobs workers won’t risk their health for a crap wage. So the right wants to beat them down.
Read more...Some bank CEOs are telling their workers to return to the office in the next few months. If Covid stay tame, will other companies follow?
Read more...Biden is suddenly backing a patent waiver for foreign manufacture of Covid vaccines. But do the mechanics make this a headfake?
Read more...A big Covid surge in the Seychelles, a heavly vaccinated country, calls into question relying on vaccines as the route to normalcy.
Read more...As Covid deaths and contagion is falling in the US (but rising globally), it’s a mistake for the young to dismiss risks.
Read more...The fully-vaccinated may soon be able to visit the EU for non-essential travel. The catch: proving one’s vaccine status.
Read more...One lasting benefit of the terrible COVID-19 pandemic might be a quicker route to a malaria vaccine and a safer future for children in the world’s poorest countries.
Read more...Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP failed to pull off an upset in West Bengal, and still has never atatinaed a majority in the state.
Read more...Biden faces increased wroldwide pressure for WTO waiver of intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines as case counts soar in India.
Read more...Mark Blyth explains why inflation in the U.S., Canada, & E.U. is highly unlikely: a room for more government spending and higher wages.
Read more...The fact that even well-placed young people are insecure and pessimistic is further proof of the impact of inequality and rentierism.
Read more...The Covid nightmare in India won’t end soon. Yet the West, despite self-interested reasons for reducing the contagion, is standing pat.
Read more...Whither the post-Covid economy, assuming a “post-Covid”? The answer depends at least in part on where you sit.
Read more...A discussion of Covid “breakthrough” cases.
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