Is your Covid vaccination status a private matter? Has the government been tracking people who are unvaccinated? 73% of U.S. adults who are unvaccinated say they would not get a shot with an updated Covid formula either. How the party bases are changing: In the recent mayor’s race, Chicago’s high-income, elite neighborhoods voted for more…
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Thursday Links
- The FDA approves some drugs other nations don’t want.
- Study: After St. George’s Hospital in The UK ended its mask mandate for staff and visitors for some, but not all, wards, there was no difference in Covid infections between the two settings.
- Meta analysis of 2,168 studies finds that wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic led to negative health consequences, including itching, headaches, and restriction of oxygen.
- Aaron Carroll: Contra the Cochrane mask study.
- A new wealth tax in Norway causes the rich to leave Norway.
- US compensates people injured by the Covid vaccine for the first time.
- Health care cost effectiveness: how much is a quality adjusted year of life worth?
- A type of jellyfish has achieved immortality.
Are Food Stamps Healthy?
In 1996 Bill Clinton signed the law ending welfare as we know it. This quote was written 20 years later in 2016:
More than 13 million people received cash assistance from the government in 1995, before the law was passed. Today, just 3 million do.
“Simply put, welfare reform worked because we all worked together,” Bill Clinton, who signed into law welfare reform, or the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times in 2006. Clinton had campaigned on a pledge to “end welfare as we know it” and today it is all too apparent that he succeeded.
I tend to disagree with the last sentence.
Tuesday Links
- HHS to extend the PREP Act immunity for Covid vaccines: Pharmacists can’t be sued if patients suffer bodily injury, disability, or even death from the vaccine.
- More on NYC crime: Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in New York City last year involved just 327 people. Collectively, they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times.
- Richard Hanania: being fat is a choice.
- What happened to all those illegal child immigrants? The Biden administration helped put them to work.