Preparing for the COVID-19 Third Wave: The Case for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: a promising Covid-19 treatment that is being ignored.
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Universal Testing: An Overlooked Covid-19 Policy Response
Why universal testing + isolation is the best way to tame Covid-19 at the lowest economic/societal cost.
Read more...The A Levels Results Crisis and the Covid Education Train Wreck
Covid-19 is increasing inequality in educational outcomes, and that problem isn’t going away any time soon.
Read more...‘Morality Pills’ May Be the US’s Best Shot at Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic, According to One Ethicist
An ethicist seriously suggests forced medication to increase cooperation with pandemic mask-wearing.
Read more...The Pandemic Has Revealed America’s Zip Code Map of Inequality
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on lower-income communities was decades in the making.
Read more...House Democrats Introduce Urgent Bill to End ‘Deliberate Sabotage’ of Postal Service by Postmaster General
Democrats wake up awfully late in the game to the importance of protecting the Post Office from looting, um, privatizing. Are they too late?
Read more...Wolf Richter: No, Americans Aren’t Suddenly Flying Again, Despite What the Media Said Today to Boost Stocks of Airlines and Boeing
Americans are eschewing flying in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to carnage in the airlines sector.
Read more...Covid-19 Shortages Continue and Could Get Worse
Covid-19 still stalks the land and winter is coming.
Read more...Racial Disparity in COVID-19 Deaths: Seeking Economic Roots in Census Data
The higher rate of black deaths to Covid-19 appears due to higher infection rates. That suggests that work and living conditions put them much more at risk.
Read more...America’s Obesity Epidemic Threatens Effectiveness of Any COVID Vaccine
Politicians and the public rest their hopes on emergence of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. Will it work on the obese?
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Three: Uber’s Already Hopelessly Unprofitable Economics Take A Major Coronavirus Hit
The press is still refusing to depict Uber accurately, as a rotting corpse.
Read more...COVID-19 Survivors Face Lifetime of Disability
Funny how other countries are willing to acknowledge that Covid-19 can do very bad things without killing you, and not the US.
Read more...COVID-19 and the California Prison Crisis: 24th San Quentin Inmate Dies Last Friday
The 24th San Quentin inmate died Friday of COVID-19 complications, an inevitable consequence of Calironia’s misguided transfer policy.
Read more...Patrick Cockburn: War and Pandemic Journalism
On the political forces that lead governments to minimize pandemic risks and costs and cheerlead faint signs of hope.
Read more...Stimulus Talks on Verge of Failure as Both Sides Trade Blame
No news on the stimulus front is very very bad news.
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