- CRISPR isn’t just for editing human genes. It can be used to increase corn and rice yields by 10%.
- Finally: the masks are coming off in Head Start.
- How would you like to be an inch or so taller? Doctors can oblige you.
- Learning loss was greatest in school districts that remained remote the longest.
- More on Rand Paul v. Anthony Fauci.
- Why its hard to know which drugs work best against Covid.
Category: John C. Goodman
Friday Links
- Drug Companies finance about 75% of the FDA’s drug budget.
- The percentage of physicians using tele-visits/virtual visits grew from 14% in 2016 to 80% in 2022 while the percentage of physicians using remote monitoring devices grew from 12% in 2016 to 30% in 2022.
- Rand Paul v. Fauci on natural immunity.
- Pandemic spending reduced the poverty rate; but the resulting inflation left us al worse off.
Expensive Drugs Are Worth the Price
The US determines drug viability for the whole world:
Except in rare cases, pharmaceutical companies develop drugs for the U.S. market…. Probable success in America is a necessary and sufficient condition for the development of new drugs.
Wednesday Links
- People are waiting almost four weeks to see a doctor.
- Biased poll: Americans give the health care system an “F”.
- One reason for the labor shortage: 300,000 people of working age died of Covid and another 1.9 million are believed to have gotten long Covid. That adds up to 18% of unfilled jobs.
- A giant fern has twice as many nucleotide base pairs and three times as many chromosomes as humans do. (NYT, gated)
- An unusual jellyfish can live forever.