- Biden rule reverses Trump: Illegal aliens will be given green cards and access to Medicaid, CHIP and other health benefits. (gated)
- Fauci: “We don’t have time” to run clinical trials for updated boosters.
- The booster has been tested on mice. But did the mice survive?
- Laffer lives: Overall tax revenue is up $822 billion or 23 percent so far this year, on pace to be $1 trillion more than CBO projected when the Republican-passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) passed, and $1.7 trillion more than the pre-TCJA revenue level.
- From 1986 to 1994, hundreds of Cubans suffering extreme economic hardship injected themselves with HIV-infected blood to gain admittance to sanitariums that offered regular meals and air conditioning. (NYT, gated)
Author: John C. Goodman
Friday Links
- The US was one of only two among 21 similarly wealthy countries— along with Israel — in which life expectancy continued to decline last year.
- Covid seemed to crowd out the flu for the last two years. Some experts expect a big comeback this fall.
- Not following the science: In one of the few education programs the federal government directly oversees — Head Start preschools and child care centers for low-income families — mandatory masking rules are still on the books for teachers and children as young as 2-years-old.
- David Henderson: School shutdowns will shorten lives.
- DeLong: for at least 300,000 years – up until about 1870 – virtually all of our ancestors lived at the subsistence level.
- Some states spend twice as much per person on health care as other states.
- CVS is spending $8 billion to bring back doctor house calls.
Thursday Links
Wednesday Links
- Alcohol is really bad. HT: Tyler
- Could the common cold be a defense against Covid?
- Black families have been leaving the inner cities for decades.
- Why aren’t we developing more nasal vaccines?
- Pharmaceutical villain Martin Shkreli raised prices for drugs used to treat AIDS, malaria, and cancer by as much as 5,000 percent. That’s why Mark Cuban got into the business.