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Op-Ed: The CDC loosened its COVID rules. Who fills in this public health vacuum?

2022-08-17T16:38:55+00:00

Wendy Netter Epstein And Daniel Goldberg, Los Angeles Times: “The end result? A request to parents to sign a waiver and select this option: ‘Please DO NOT test my Camper for Covid-19 if he/she/they present with mild cold symptoms.’ In other words, let COVID spread.”

One-Year Trajectory of Cognitive Changes in Older Survivors of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

2022-08-17T16:02:03+00:00

JAMA Neurology: “The overall incidence of cognitive impairment in survivors 12 months after discharge was 12.45%. Among individuals with severe cases, 26 (10.00%) had dementia and 69 (26.54%) had MCI at 6 months. The numbers increased to 39 (15.00%) for dementia and remained at 68 (26.15%) for MCI at 12 months …. Survivors of nonsevere COVID-19 and control individuals had comparable frequencies of dementia and MCI at both 6 and 12 months”

The doges of war: how a Twitter meme is helping fight the Russian war in Ukraine

2022-08-15T19:50:44+00:00

Pez Pearson, Yorkshire Bylines: “In contrast, when Korybko has to argue with a NAFO account about whether or not he ‘has a huge head’ he is unable to include much in the way of Kremlin talking points.”

Fetterman keeps attacking Oz for being from New Jersey. That’s resonating in parochial PA.

2022-08-15T17:26:05+00:00

Julia Terruso, The Philadelphia Inquirer: “Every single thing about our state promotes local identity,’ said Ben Forstate, a Democratic political analyst from Western Pennsylvania, more specifically, Allegheny County, more specifically Pittsburgh, and more specifically the North Hills neighborhood.”

Red states are building a nation within a nation

2022-07-26T14:00:52+00:00

Ronald Brownstein, CNN: “Podhorzer calculated that the gross domestic product per person and the median household income are now both more than 25% greater in the blue section than in the red.”

It's the virus, stupid.

2022-07-24T18:35:06+00:00

Eric Topol: “That has been accompanied by the most reinfections seen to date, and, in places like Japan, with excellent vaccination uptake but relatively low levels of prior infection, a monstrous wave of infections that already exceeds Omicron BA.1.”

Watching American Democracy Melt

2022-07-20T19:07:41+00:00

Kate Aronoff: “Yet Manchin’s ever-evolving wish list may never have been intended to do anything other than drag negotiations out for as long as possible. As The New York Times reported, he was able to extract some key wins for donors in the fossil fuel industry along the way, including the Interior Department’s recent plan to offer up new federal lands for oil and gas drilling. And Manchin, recall, is himself a coal baron—a living embodiment of U.S. democracy’s inability to tackle conflicts of interest in lawmaking.”

Build Back Better, Dead Again

2022-07-20T18:21:03+00:00

Adam Tooze: “What it means is that the US energy transition will be slowed down. It will proceed without support and at a considerable disadvantage. It places Detroit, for instance, in an invidious position. The risk is that in the not too distant future the US becomes collateral damage as eurasian transition proceeds. That is bad news for US capital. American business misses out on the profits to be made from green modernization.”

Debt: The First Five Thousand Years

2022-07-17T03:56:44+00:00

David Graeber: “For much of human history, systems of virtual money were designed and regulated to ensure that nothing like capitalism could ever emerge to begin with – at least not as it appears in its present form, with most of the world’s population placed in a condition that would in many other periods of history be considered tantamount to slavery.”

Do corporate tax cuts boost economic growth?

2022-07-17T02:19:19+00:00

Sebastian Gechert, Philipp Heimberger: “There is evidence for publication selectivity in favour of reporting growth-enhancing effects of corporate tax cuts. Correcting for this bias, we cannot reject the hypothesis of a zero effect of corporate taxes on growth.”