Medical systems are already under strain due to Covid and some nurses have had enough.
Read more...US data shows that strict responses reduce Covid outbreaks, and less stringent (Republican) states spread disease to each other.
Read more...A detailed discussion of the headline “95% effective” claim for the about-to-be-released Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines.
Read more...Steve Keen and Micheal Hudson provide a deep dive on a debt jubilee, and how it could be implemented in a Covid-afflicted economy.
Read more...The clock is ticking for underwater tenants, and Congressional relief looks set to be too little, too late.
Read more...Opportunistic university administrators seize the opportunity presented by Covid to gut academic freedom and turn faculty into employees
Read more...Experts in ethics and immunization behavior say they expect attitudes toward vaccines to shift quickly from widespread hesitancy to urgent, even heated demand.
Read more...An examination of particularly Covid-containment strategies in terms of cost versus effectiveness.
Read more...The Nov. 14 cut-off kept most of the Covid spike impact from the jobs data. And there’s underying decay due to globalization.
Read more...While the Covid employment picture has unquestionably improved, don’t kid yourself into thinking that it is good.
Read more...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...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...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...Scores of deaths were not reported to occupational safety officials from the earliest days of the pandemic through late October.
Read more...The WTO is set to consider a proposal supported by 99 countries to waive intellectual property protection for Covid treatments.
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