The Effectiveness of School Closures and Other Pre-Lockdown COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies in Argentina, Italy, and South Korea
Guido Neidh öfer (Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research), Claudio Neidhöfer (University Hospital Bonn), The Effectiveness of School Closures and Other Pre-Lockdown COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies in Argentina, Italy, and South Korea, ZEW-Centre for Eur. Econ. Research Discission Paper No. 20-034 (2020) :... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 13, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Dollarization for Lebanon
ConclusionThe US dollar is not a perfect currency. But it needn ' t be perfect to provide a vast improvement over Lebanon ' s chaotic status quo. Annual inflation of 2 percent is far better than 50 percent. A free currency market is far better than one with price controls and discriminatory rationing. Full dollarization offers the best hope for turning the lights back on in Lebanon._________________[1] This essay contains the gist of my remarks made via Zoom to an audience in Lebanon on Saturday, 18 June 2020. My thanks to Forrest Partovi and Jalal Hasbini respectively for arranging the event and for leading the discussion...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 30, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 and Fame
Ask anybody on the planet, “What do Tom Hanks, Boris Johnson, and Prince Charles have in common?” and they will instantly shout – “Corona.”
Ask these same people, “Who were the three Prime Ministers that died of Coronavirus last month?” Few will respond, “Well…there was Nur Hassan Husein from Somalia, Mahmoud Jabril from Libya and Joachim Yhombi-Opango from Congo – who died (respectively) in London, Cairo, and Paris.”
As of May 4, no fewer than eleven movie stars had contracted COVID-19, nine with fatal results. Other victims include retired Commanders of the Turkish and Polish Armies, a well...
Source: GIDEON blog - May 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Cases Events VIPatients Source Type: blogs
Birds, Pigs and Silent VIP ’s
It has become a tragic fact that every year the flu season brings an immense burden on health care services and now has dozens of subtypes cataloged, from ‘swine flu’ to ‘bird flu’ to ‘Asian flu’ and beyond. Typically, between late Fall and early Spring, over the last ten years, the United States alone has suffered hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and tens of thousands of deaths across all ages [1]. But shortly after the turn of the century the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1918 to 1920 was different in the extreme, and like every disease or virus did not discriminate on age, gender, race, even specie...
Source: GIDEON blog - March 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: General Source Type: blogs
Early Birds And Bearded Dragons: The Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
A study on bearded dragons has honed in on the brain structure responsible for generating slow wave sleep patterns, writes Elizabeth Pennisi at Science. An area of the brain called the claustrum — not previously known to even exist in reptiles — was key: when the structure was damaged, the lizards could still sleep but showed no slow wave patterns. It’s been an interesting few months for bearded dragon research: as we wrote in December, the lizards apparently also succumb to optical illusions.
A mismatch between a student’s “chron...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs
Agriculture Purchase Commitments Under the U.S.-China Trade Deal: The Case of Beef
Simon Lester andHuan ZhuYesterday, President Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed a " phase one "U.S.-China trade deal. A " phase two " deal may be coming, although the timing is unclear, and many people (including us) are skeptical that it will happen any time soon. There are some technical and complicated parts of the phase one deal, and it will take some time to digest it all and come up with an overall evaluation. But it ' s worth exploring some specific aspects right away. One of the most talked about parts of the phase one deal is the commitments by China to purchase large amounts of U.S. products, including ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 16, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester, Huan Zhu Source Type: blogs
Human Freedom Waning in Many Countries
This article originally appeared on theFraser Forum on January 2, 2020. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Tanja Por čnik Source Type: blogs
Do Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Really Care About Wealth Inequality?
Ryan BourneSenator Bernie Sanders has called levels of U.S. wealth inequality“outrageous,” “grotesque” and “immoral.” Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is pushing for a wealth tax to curb what she describes as “runaway wealth concentration.” Yet despite their rhetoric, it’s not clear, deep down, whether either really cares about wealth inequality per se or believes that reducing it should be an overriding public policy goal.To see why, consider this. Every year,Credit Suisse calculates a wealth “Gini coefficient” for major countries, indicating their level of wealth inequality in a s...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 5, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Chile's Success Story is Difficult to Deny
Ian V ásquezWeeks after a 3.75% rise in metro fares in Santiago, Chile sparked violent protests by a small group of students that then generated more widespread disruption, mostly peaceful mass protests continue. Some observers have seized on the political crisis to make often-repeated claims that Chile ’s free-market model has generated growing inequality and been fundamentally unjust despite having produced greater wealth.Yet such claims are difficult to square with the facts. Since its free-market reforms began in 1975, Chile has quadrupled its income per capita, making it the most prosperous country in Latin America...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 4, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Macri Is the Only One Responsible for His Downfall
TheWall Street Journal described it as a “setback, ” but the appropriate term is a “shellacking.” Mauricio Macri’s chances of being reelected in Argentina are pretty much over after he finished 12 points behind the Peronist ticket of Alberto Fernández and former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Sunday’s mandatory presidential primaries. Even thoughMacri might still think he can make a miraculous comeback, the markets are already writing him off for the election in October. Thus, it ’s not too soon to write his presidential obituary.The case against Macri is straightforward. Nearly four years afte...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 15, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Juan Carlos Hidalgo Source Type: blogs
Context and Nuance, Part 5
I worked for 15 years at a community based organization in Boston that was founded as a public health agency targeting the Latino population. We eventually had offices in Boston, Lowell and Brockton, and began to offer behavioral health and clinical case management as well as community health promotion programs. I was one of the few Anglos who worked there, but I don ' t know that I was exactly more of a minority than everybody else. My co-workers were of Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, Ecuadorian, Venezuelan, Argentinian, and eventually also Haitian and Brazilian ethnicity as we expanded the communities we served. We di...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 15, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Don't Cry for Me, Democratic Socialists
When debating socialists, it often feels as if you ’re trying to hit a moving target.Socialism in action, in the words of Robert Lawson and Ben Powell,“sucks.” But as my former colleague Kristian Niemietz explains througha litany of historical examples, countries once claimed toshow another way is possible are quickly dismissed as“not real socialism” when things inevitably turn sour.Debating socialism is more complex still in the contemporary United States. That ’s because today’s self-declared “democratic socialists” are trying tore-define what socialism means entirely.Gone is the lofty aim of collective...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 13, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Context and Nuance: Part Three
Having said something about race, I will now turn to the concepts of caste, class and ethnicity. These intersect with race in complicated ways, but we need to unpack the individual parts and try to get a shared understanding of them before we try to put them back together.A caste is a socially constructed category that is strictly inherited, and assigns people to differential status. The caste system of India is well known. Historically, people inherited quite specific occupations, including priest, warrior, and waste collector. People whose caste assigned them to menial jobs were otherwise despised and ritually unclean. B...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 7, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Are Republicans Still the Party of Free Trade?
Politico reportersrecently sat down with Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and asked his opinion about the future of the world trading system and what might be going on in President Trump ’s head with regard to the increasing recourse to tariffs as a policy tool. Here’s what he said:Grassley on Trump: “He believes in tariffs as a tool to get a negotiation as opposed to being an end in themselves. Then he hasn’t changed anything. If he has used tariffs because he believes they’re good, and I know he says that, but I don’t believe he actually believes that. I don’t see how he could believ e it.”“[H]e hasn’...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 16, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Inu Manak Source Type: blogs
Do Opposites Really Attract?
News flash! Just about everyone thinks that opposites attract — but they don’t. Many relationship experts write that people seek partners whose traits complement their own.
It’s a myth that opposites attract, says Matthew D. Johnson, Chair & Professor of Psychology and Director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory, Binghamton University, State University of New York.
“Love stories often include people finding partners who seem to have traits that they lack,” he writes, “like a good girl falling for a bad boy. In this way, they appear to complement one another … The question i...
Source: World of Psychology - March 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marcia Naomi Berger, MSW, LCSW Tags: Communication Marriage and Divorce Relationships Source Type: blogs
