Doubling of the Oil Price Is Always “Transitory”
Alan ReynoldsThis graph compares the year ‐to‐year percentage change in headline inflation (the blue line) with the monthly percentage change in the consumer price index (CPI) excluding energy (the red bars). Because the blue line has exceeded 5% since June and exceeded 6% in October, many are understandably convinced that inflati on was lower in the spring and has accelerated since then. As I recently demonstrated, however, large year‐to‐year percentage changes in the overall CPI have always been dominated byhuge changes (both up and down) in the world price of crude oil. One way to partly correct ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Empty Grocery Store Shelves Show the Limits of Federal Localization Mandates
Scott Lincicome and Ilana BlumsackPointing to empty store shelves and rising prices brought about by the current “supply chain crisis,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) hasintroduced legislation that would mandate at least half of the value of goods “critical” to national security be produced in the United States. However, one of the most visible examples of the current “supply chain problem” –empty grocery store shelves and rising food prices– shows why simplistic government localization mandates are no panacea and could, in fact, make things worse.In particular, the vast majority of the food that Americans consume...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 27, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome, Ilana Blumsack Source Type: blogs
Response to COVID-19 in Ukraine: Legal Pragmatism or Constitutional Outbreak?
Bohdan Bernatskyi (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), Roman Petrov (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), Response to COVID-19 in Ukraine: Legal Pragmatism or Constitutional Outbreak?, VerfBlog (2020): Legal measures adopted by Ukrainian authorities to fight COVID-19 seemed as an attempt to... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 24, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
More on Freedumb
I think that in the present political climate, a small history lesson may be in order. The first safe and effective vaccination was discovered by the English physician Edward Jenner in 1796. It depended on the lucky coincidence that infection with the cowpox virus, which causes only mild disease in humans, confers cross-immunity to smallpox, a terrible scourge which had afflicted humanity for thousands of years. (That ' s why we call it vaccination, by the way, from the Latin vacca for cow. Modern vaccination used killed virus and caused no disease.) Nobody knew at the time what a virus was or why this worked, so it would ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 9, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Explainable A.I. Or Why You Need To Understand Machine Learning In Healthcare
A doctor in China uses a machine learning algorithm to detect signs of pneumonia associated with SARS-CoV-2 infections on images from lung CT scans. Epidemiologists in Canada are using the technology to monitor the spread of a disease and help prevent outbreaks. In the U.S., researchers are using artificial intelligence for more efficient drug discovery. Elsewhere around the world, patients are turning to their phones to access symptom checkers leveraging smart algorithms.
These instances where medical professionals and patients alike employ artificial intelligence (A. I.) are already happening but in the coming years w...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 28, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research algorithm study deep learning machine learning A.I. npj Digital Medicine supervised learning reinforcement learning unsupervised learning Source Type: blogs
Something Seems To Be Not Quite Right Here And I Am Not Sure Why.
This appeared last week: 16 September 2021 Remote monitoring keeps patients safe at home By Holly Payne As our national focus shifts away from covid-zero and toward “living with the virus”, we’re left with questions about how the hospital system will manage the increase in patients. Virtual covid wards, where patients with milder symptoms are monitored at home, offer a shiny new solution to the issue. But with covid patients prone to rapidly deteriorate w ithout showing any outward distress – a phenomenon dubbed “happy hypoxia”– being able to quickly escalate care is also vital. Given the highly infectious na...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 24, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Private Partz, Major Bummer, and General Payne-Diaz
Well, maybe. In the KJV, the Philistines are afflicted with hemorrhoids. (Actually it uses the archaic word emorods, but that ' s what it means.) In verse 9, they specifically had emorods in their " secret parts. " Hey, it isn ' t funny -- Preparation H had yet to be invented.However, later translators have decided that the Hebrew word has a more general meaning, and most translate it as tumors. One hypothesis is that this is intended as a reference to bubonic plague. A footnote in the New International Version, which I ' m giving here, says that the Septuagint has rats appearing in the land in verse 5, which would support...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 19, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Eight Reasons For Ending Joe Biden ’s Travel Bans
Ryan Bourne and Brad SubramaniamBack in July, Ioutlined why Joe Biden ’s crude COVID-19 travel bans on non-Americans coming from Europe, India, and a few other countries no longer made any sense from a public health perspective.Talk in Washington at the time was of lifting these restrictions by September. Well, here we are, mid-way through that month and the restrictions are going strong. Officials and diplomats now seem to think October or even Thanksgiving are the earliest potential dates for their removal. Some ponder whether the political incentives might point towards inactionuntil the mid-terms...which would mean b...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne, Brad Subramaniam Source Type: blogs
Responding to the needs of a diverse workforce and community during Covid-19
NHS Employers - Solent NHS Trust is a community and mental health trust that covers Portsmouth, Southampton and parts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. At the outbreak of Covid-19, a comprehensive organisational diversity and inclusion response was developed, focussing on five workstreams. This case study describes in detail the five workstreams, accomplishments and lessons learnt for the future.Case study (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 31, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Equality and diversity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Reading Aloud without a Mask, Olfactory Bulbs, Omega Variant
Conclusion and recommendation:" Ineligibility because of age and lack of vaccination contribute to persistent elevated risk for outbreaks in schools, especially as new SARS-CoV-2 variants emerge. However, implementation of multiple prevention strategies within schools can mitigate this risk. "Olfactory Bulbs Speaking of smell,over 20 papers show MRI signal abnormalities in the olfactory bulbs of COVID-19 patients with anosmia (loss of smell). This isn ' t new, but anosmia has been reported inbreakthroughcasesas well. The images below show some resolution in a patient from time 1 to time 2.Magnetic Resonance Imaging Al...
Source: The Neurocritic - August 31, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Yes, Shit
By KIM BELLARD
The Conversation had a provocative article by Stanford professor Richard White about how America has a bad pattern of wasting infrastructure spending. In light of the surprisingly bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill recently passed by the Senate, this seems like something we should be giving some serious thought to.
I’ll posit that we’re doing it again, by not adequately addressing the potential that our excreta, to be polite, offers to detect health issues, including but not limited to COVID-19.
No shit: excrement can be an important tool in public — and personal ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard public health wastewater monitoring Source Type: blogs
Please join me and respectfully fight COVID misinformation
Another COVID outbreak appears to be transpiring. As America celebrated significant milestones with vaccination efforts, many people were still spurred by misinformation, lack of evidence, and education. The COVID-19 vaccine naysayers are in all walks of society, from the uneducated to health care professionals. I think it’s fair to say that our civil liberties andRead more …Please join me and respectfully fight COVID misinformation originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/tomi-mitchell" rel="tag" > Tomi Mitchell, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 29, 2021 Edition ----- In Australia we are seeing a COVID outbreak being very hard to control in NSW while we are seeing SA and VIC doing much better. Talk of recession is now starting as NSW as the lockdown seems to have no end. In the US the fires in the Northwest have become truly Biblical in extent and intensity while people in Republican dominated states are dropping like flies as they don ’t want to be vaccinated. Massively stupid and deluded ratbags IMVHO. In the UK we await to see the consequences of Freedom day! It should be clear about the time this is available! Sadly in Asia the virus is rampant and deat...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 29, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
CDC updates indoor mask guidance
Due to emerging science about transmission in vaccinated people, the CDC now recommends all teachers and students wear masks in school, and that people living in COVID-19 hotspots, or areas of the country with large outbreaks, wear masks indoors, CDC officials said on Tuesday. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, attributed this updated guidance to new scienceRead more …CDC updates indoor mask guidance originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 28, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/molly-walker" rel="tag" > Molly Walker < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
AusHealthIT Poll Number 589 – Results – 25th July, 2021.
Here are the results of the poll. Was Premier Gladys Berejiklian Too Slow To Tighten COVID19 Restrictions In Greater Sydney To Get Prompt Control Of The Present Outbreak? Yes 58% (42) No 21% (15) I Have No Idea 21% (15) Total votes: 72 An interesting outcome with most thinking Gladys has been a bit slow to act more firmly. By the end of the week it rather looks like things are slipping out of control and what comes next is not at all clear. Any insights on the poll are welcome, as a comment, as usual! A good number of votes with a pretty clear outcome! It must also have been a very hard question as 15/72 (...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 25, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
