The Fable of the Cats
George SelginThe comparison has by now been made so often that it may qualify as a platitude. I mean that between stablecoin issuers and “wildcat” banks, the fly‐by‐night scams that supposedly flooded the antebellum United States with notes nominally worth some stated amount of gold or silver, but actually worth little more than the rag paper they were made of.Such disreputable stuff, we keep hearing, is what “private” currency always tends to be like. The paper sort survived until federal authorities nationalized the nation’s paper money during the Civil War. And (we are told), digital currency will...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 6, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Comparative Catastrophes
The building collapse in Surfside, Florida apparently killed a few more than 150 people. It has been the subject of round-the-clock coverage by every cable news network, and the front page of every newspaper, for the week since it happened. Wolf Blitzer even moved himself down there -- this is even though there has been nothing in particular new to report for 23 3/4 of every one of those round-the-clock cycles. We still aren ' t sure why it happened, and therefore unsure what larger implications there may be, if any.Meanwhile hundreds of people, at least -- we won ' t have a full appreciation of the death toll for quite a ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 2, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Promoting Public Health Through State Sovereign Immunity
Sapna Kumar (University of Houston), Promoting Public Health Through State Sovereign Immunity, Univ. Pa. J. L.& Innovation (2021): During the COVID-19 outbreak, the United States experienced widespread shortages of patented drugs and goods. But although states negotiated with foreign... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 25, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
June 24, 2021 Edition ----- A pretty quiet week in the US with the G7 and NATO meetings over and the focus moving back to domestic issues. In the UK the COVID situation seems to be getting worse with the delta variant seemingly taking over both the UK and the world. The Russians and The Royal Navy seem to be unhappy with each other over Crimea. Watch this space!
In Australia ScoMo is in quarantine while the last week of parliament happens for the next six weeks or so! The big worry is a worrying COVID outbreak in Sydney. Not clear how it will play out!
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 24, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Promoting Public Health Through State Sovereign Immunity
Sapna Kumar (University of Houston Law Center), Promoting Public Health Through State Sovereign Immunity, Univ. Pa. J. L.& Innovation (2021): During the COVID-19 outbreak, the United States experienced widespread shortages of patented drugs and goods. But although states negotiated... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 17, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
COVID and Cruises
Julian SanchezI ’vewritten previously about the unhelpful state of public discussion around what are misleadingly dubbed “vaccine passports”—a discussion that tends to conflate Orwellian visions of immunization papers being demanded at every pub and corner bodega with the far more plausible scenario: a few categories of businesses exercising their freedom of association when they deem it necessary, given their specific circumstances, to operate safely.One example I offered was cruise lines, because several had already announced their intention to restart operation for fully vaccinated passengers, and also...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Julian Sanchez Source Type: blogs
Quarantines: Between Precaution and Necessity. A Look at COVID-19
Vera L úcia Raposo (University of Macau), Quarantines: Between Precaution and Necessity. A Look at COVID-19, Pub. Health Ethics (2021): The events surrounding COVID-19, combined with the mandatory quarantines widely imposed in Asia and Europe since the virus outbreak, have reignited... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 8, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
U.S. Science Embrace of Wuhan “Gain-Of-Function” Viral Research Proved A Slippery Slope
By MIKE MAGEE
The truth hurts.
Eighteen months into a disaster that has claimed 3.5 million lives around the globe, the truth is seeping out. Human error likely caused the Covid pandemic, and America’s Medical-Industrial Complex was right in the middle of it.
Signs of a “great awakening” have emerged from various corners in the month of May.
On May 14, UNC’s top virologist, Ralph Baric, who worked closely with Wuhan chief virologist and batwoman extraordinare, Shi Zhengli, signed on with 17 other scientists to a Science editorial that demanded a reexamination of Covid’s causality writing “theorie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Mike Magee Wuhan Source Type: blogs
The Future of COVID-19 Therapies and Vaccines
Against all odds and breaking development records, we now have several approved COVID-19 vaccines rolling out worldwide. No need for DIY vaccines; these research-backed shots have repeatedly been shown to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections and its spread. In May, following new evidence of efficacy in children, the FDA further approved administering the Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to children aged between 12 and 15 years. Before, only those aged 16 and up could get the vaccine but vaccinating more children will be key to achieving herd immunity and ending the pandemic.
With such a promising outlook of available vaccine...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 1, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research therapy Fauci cdc vaccine pfizer Moderna SARS SARS-CoV-2 trials Duke Human Vaccine Institute Altimmune Nigel McMillan Source Type: blogs
Data
I ' m not talking about the android science officer, although that would be an interesting subject. I ' m talking about facts or statistics gathered together for reference or analysis, as the dictionary would have it. We recently had a commenter who pointed out that the large majority of firearm homicides in the U.S. are not in the context of mass shootings; and that they are perpetrated with handguns, not long guns. This is true! But how did he know it? He knew it because CDC ' s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control maintains theNational Violent Death Reporting System, which pools inform...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 21, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
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Shanoor Seervai and Arnav Shah argue that an uncontrolled COVID-19 outbreak in Latin America will have a serious impact on the U.S. and the rest of the world.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - May 10, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shanoor Seervai, Arnav Shah Source Type: blogs
Evidence of the Risks of Elevated Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Erin PartinLast week ’s job market numberswere strong. The unemployment rate fell to 6.0 percent – the lowest since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic – and total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 916,000 in March. But signs already suggest that the employment bounce-back is being restrained from its full potential by Congress’s decision to entrench a $300 weekly unemployment benefit sup plement through September.Combined with state unemployment benefits,around 37 percent of workers can currently make more unemployed than in work. A low-income worker in Massachusetts previously earning $535 per week faced a pre-pa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Erin Partin Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: Learning From Bitter Political Experience?
Ryan BourneWhy did some countries deal with COVID-19 better than others?Books, academic journal articles, and PhD dissertations will be written on that subject, with analysis having to contend with a vast array of country ‐specific variables that could, conceivably, have affected public health outcomes. But public choice economics offers up one underexplored way to think about the quality of responses: as driven by political incentives.Despite claims by economists such as Mariana Mazzucato that governments are forward ‐looking, there’s a good reason to suspect they will be ill ‐prepared when it c...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 1, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Joshua Greenberg on Antebellum Paper Money
George SelginAlerted by a tweet by him, I recently listened toa December 2020 C-SPAN talk, on " Paper Money in Antebellum America, " by historianJoshua Greenberg, the author ofBank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic.I haven ' t yet read his book. But Greenberg ' s talk is worth a listen. I was especially intrigued by his suggestion that, because they had to deal with so many different banknotes, including many of doubtful value, early Americans acquired a degree of financial savviness they sorely lack nowadays. Greenberg ' s related thesis that, by virtue of their very lack of uniformity...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 31, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
How to protect your resilience [PODCAST]
“Health care delivery will always be inherently unpredictable and challenging. Those drawn to medicine are among our most resilient, but the current landscape reveals acutely a rise in burnout that exceeded acceptable levels even before the COVID-19 outbreak. Such innate resilience in clinicians and clinical care teams is an individual and strategic asset worthy of […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
