- Euthanasia in Canada: are doctors and health workers talking patients into it?
- Japan to young people: drink more alcohol!
- Hospitals say they need more money – their patients are “sicker.”
- The federal government gave state and local governments almost $1 trillion to offset the effects of Covid. What difference did that make? Not much.
- Stats from UK: Why are there so many non-Covid excess deaths? (They may even exceed Covid deaths.)
Category: Monday Links
Monday Links
- Because of a “Covid Emergency,” 150 members of the house were able to vote remotely on the IRA bill.
- Are progressives trying to destroy San Francisco’s status as “the best food city in the country”?
- Is hearing loss justification enough to end your life? Canada arguably has the world’s most permissive euthanasia rules.
- Why is Bill Kristol attacking Herschel Walker because he sought mental health care?
- Does it matter what time of day you take your meds? Apparently.
Monday Links
- Yglesias: Everything you want to know about combatting monkeypox, and then some.
- Monkeypox: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?
- Paxlovid rebound: when a person (like President Biden) tests positive for the coronavirus again even after initially testing negative following a round of treatment with the antiviral is more common than you think.
- CBO: Drug pricing bill will Lead to higher launch prices for new drugs.
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- CBO: Drug pricing bill will lead to 60 fewer drugs over the next three decades.
- Do hospital patients need their own in-house advocate? Covid issues
Monday Links
- Good news: The FCC is cracking down on robocalls.
- The case for Novavax.
- Lancet study: rising global temperatures since 2000 have caused 116,000 more heat deaths annually, but also led to 283,000 fewer cold deaths.
- The doctor doesn’t know best: health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers are switching mental health patients from a prescribed medication to one that may not work as well.
- How well does Paxlovid really work?
- Why is America’s mortality rate higher than that of other nations? Study considers every possibility except the obvious one: our population is heterogeneous. Last time I looked, Americans of northern European descent have the same life expectancy as northern Europeans.