On Monday President Biden announced a Cancer Moonshot. The speech was delivered on the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s speech announcing his proposal to send a man to the Moon and return him safely to Earth. The Cancer Moonshot speech was delivered at the Kennedy Library in Boston. Leaning into the symbolism of President John F. Kennedy’s…
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Americans Boozed it Up During the Lockdown and Never Stopped
During the pandemic Americans were stuck at home with little social outlet and apparently boozed it up to relieve the stress of Covid, according to an article in The New York Times. Or maybe they thought alcohol taken internally was a good sanitizer for Covid.
Alcohol tax revenues collected by the U.S. Treasury Department rose by eight percent in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, 2021, compared with the previous year, and remain well above pre-pandemic levels.
Covid Vaccine Makers Won’t Share Vaccines for Next-Gen Research
In his Wednesday Links, John Goodman points to the question, Why aren’t we developing more nasal vaccines? This from Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution:
Nasal vaccines are more likely to stop infection than vaccines injected into muscle because they stimulate mucosal immunity in the nose and respiratory system, the first line of attack, and they are likely to increase uptake especially among people with trypanophobia. Hence my longstanding call for an Operation Warp Speed for nasal vaccines. We haven’t got OWS 2.0 in the United States but nasal vaccines have recently been approved in China and India.
The Atlantic: Lowering the Cost of Insulin May Costs Lives
An article in The Atlantic explains that lowering the cost of insulin could turn deadly. According to The Atlantic:
The Inflation Reduction Act, passed last month, aims to help people… by lowering the cost of insulin across America. …Democrats succeeded in capping expenses for the drug among Americans on Medicare at $35 a month, offering meaningful savings for our seniors, some of whom will save hundreds of dollars a month thanks to the measure.