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News for May 11 — Economic Pain Grows

Sweden’s COVID-19 approach is not avoiding economic pain: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-sweden-economy-to-contract-as-severely-as-the-rest-of-europe.html . This study disputes most of the information out there about the utility of ventilators and other standard care: https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/harvard-doctors-find-this-is-how-most-critical-covid-19-patients-are-beating-it?ltm=mYWEvytc58ZH3E94lSPzipzgpM6T4ee%2BUs%2BwZFllecg%3D&subscriber_type=member&utm_source=member&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter&utm_term=dnl-5-11-20-norton&utm_content=dnl-5-11-20-norton&utm_medium=email . The “Chinese lab” theory of COVID-19’s start does not hold up: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/05/anthony-fauci-no-scientific-evidence-the-coronavirus-was-made-in-a-chinese-lab-cvd/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SpecialEdition_20200508&rid=0E04D5187958FAC015ABAB0A9ACC44CE . https://apnews.com/9c4d5284ba4769d3b98aa05232201f88 . The above story references a 17-page document  released by the …

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News for April 14 — Long COVID Mechanism Debated

Long COVID mechanism debated: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-04-14/long-covid-19-is-sticking-around-whats-causing-it . The bottom line is, we don’t know, and there be multiple causes. XBB.1.16 increases percent of COVID infections: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-04-14/cdc-adds-new-xbb-1-16-omicron-subvariant-to-variant-tracker . The near-doubling in one week (from 4% to 7%) reflects the past pattern of strains which have later become dominant. No evidence of which species transmitted COVID to humans: …

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News for July 18 — China Suppresses COVID Death Data

China suppresses COVID death data: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/16/china/china-cremation-data-covid-19-intl-hnk/index.html . As we had feared, China is suppressing all data that would allow us to do an “excess deaths” calculation in order to understand the effect of COVID on China. We know they were grossly understating COVID deaths. We are left with modeling on very limited data. More on …

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News for April 5 — American Life Expectancy Declines

American life expectancy declines: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/column-america-s-decline-in-life-expectancy-speaks-volumes-about-our-problems/ar-AA19uSzz?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=0001f6e5607d4f8f854f4029625f0cf5&ei=66 . While this Los Angeles Times opinion piece is very much in line with our previous comments on the CDC findings, this is very much worth reading as it adds some additional observations. In particular, note the observation that among the 20 states with the lowest life expectancies, 8 are …

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News for April 22 — Justice Alito’s Embarrassing Mifepristone Dissent

Justice Alito’s embarrassing mifepristone dissent: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22a901_3d9g.pdf . We already knew Sam was small-minded, from acting up at Obama’s State of the Union and then discontinuing his appearances, to his poorly reasoned and poorly written Dobbs opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. However, now that we have read Alito’s mifepristone dissent, Sam apparently was rubbed the wrong …

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