The increasingly dominant Delta variant: Vaccines and transmissibility (especially through children) during “Vaccine Summer.”
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Sunday, December 28, 2025
Delta Force: Notes on Our Newest Covid Variant of Concern
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:25 pm | 55 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/18/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 39 Comments »
The Framers Would Call the United States of Today Corrupt. And They’d Be Right
The Framers sought to bad a culture of gift giving. How’s that working out?
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 12:55 pm | 33 Comments »
Links 6/18/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 169 Comments »
The Health Externalities of Downsizing
This column finds a significant increase in drug prescriptions and hospitalizations following mass layoffs, driven primarily by mental and cardiovascular conditions
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:55 am | 7 Comments »
What President Biden and His Media Chorus Revealed about Their War-Fighting Capabilities
Putin and Biden, side by side.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Russia
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:54 am | 33 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/17/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 63 Comments »
Supreme Court Dismisses Obamacare Challenge, Leaving Existing Health Care Insurance System in Place
United States Supreme Court upholds Obamacare in the third challenge it has heard on the legislation.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Politics
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 12:55 pm | 8 Comments »
Links 6/17/2021
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:58 am | 165 Comments »
Unions Demand Pelosi and Schumer Include Lower Medicare Age, Drug Pricing Reform in Infrastructure Plan
Unions urge Biden and Congress to include expanded Medicare eligibility and prescription drug pricing reform in the infrastructure plan.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:57 am | 38 Comments »
Device Makers Have Funneled Billions to Orthopedic Surgeons Who Use Their Products
Despite warning that freebies to surgeons might constitute fraud, the feds have yet to ramp up enforcement actions.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:52 am | 4 Comments »
CDC Continues on Form: Suppressing Aerosol Transmission in Covid FAQ, “See No Evil” Testing for Breakthrough Cases
Romanov-like efficiency…
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:55 am | 54 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/16/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 100 Comments »
Biden Taps Lina Khan to Chair the FTC
Hours after the Senate confirmed her nomination to the FTC, Biden tapped noted Big Tech critic Lina Khan to chair the agency.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 9:55 am | 9 Comments »
Links 6/16/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:58 am | 170 Comments »



