Thursday, March 10, 2022

Economics and Coronavirus related links 031022

 

How Much Longer Can We Keep Doing This Without a Vaccine?  All parents are struggling during the pandemic, but those with kids too young to be vaccinated are barely holding on.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-parent-child-vaccine/

 

My Disabled Life Is Worthy: The loss of disabled and chronically ill lives due to COVID-19 is no less tragic or preventable.

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Alperstein.html

 

Corporate Journalists Are Blind to a Big COVID Lesson

https://www.creators.com/read/ted-rall/01/22/corporate-journalists-are-blind-to-a-big-covid-lesson

 

Why aren’t daycares testing kids for COVID?  Without clear federal guidance, many families with little ones are stuck in a loop of COVID quarantines.

https://www.popsci.com/health/covid-testing-daycare-kids/

 

What Do Masks Do to Kids?  Face masks keep kids safe from Covid-19 and keep schools open. There’s no evidence they harm kids developmentally.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165306/face-masks-dont-harm-kids-development

 

How Pfizer Cashed In on the Pandemic

https://progressive.org/magazine/pfizer-cashed-in-pandemic-nichols/

 

Don’t Let the Anti-Vaxxers Bring You Down

http://www.populist.com/28.01.McMillen.html

 

An Undiscovered Coronavirus? The Mystery of the ‘Russian Flu’.  Scientists are grasping for any example that could help anticipate the future of Covid, even a mysterious respiratory pandemic that spread in the late 19th century.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/health/russian-flu-coronavirus.html

 

Why “Follow the Science” Failed—and How to Fix It Before the Next Covid: Americans have heard conflicting advice from various public health agencies during this pandemic. The solution begins with local reform.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165391/follow-science-failedand-fix-next-covid

 

Ivermectin doesn't prevent severe disease from Covid-19, new study finds

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/18/health/ivermectin-severe-covid-19/index.html

 

Why were scientists so slow to study Covid-19 vaccines and menstruation?  How ignoring a key side effect of Covid-19 vaccines led to one of the most pervasive vaccination myths about fertility.

https://www.vox.com/22935125/covid-vaccine-trials-menstrual-cycle-period-changes-fertility-myths

 

COVID vaccines offer lasting protection against reinfection, studies find

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/02/covid-vaccines-offer-lasting-protection-against-reinfection-studies-find

 

Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers by John Nichols

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678763/coronavirus-criminals-and-pandemic-profiteers-by-john-nichols/

 

How Long Covid Exhausts the Body

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/19/science/long-covid-causes.html

 

Why Is This Group of Doctors So Intent on Unmasking Kids?  The physicians and scientists of the Urgency of Normal are cherry-picking data in their push to end pandemic precautions, but are getting favorable mainstream media attention and support from wealthy, white communities that never felt the full brunt of Covid-19.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165413/mask-mandates-kids-back-to-normal

 

Long Covid Is Just Getting Started. We’re Not Ready for It.  Even after the pandemic, we don’t know what Covid holds for us. But we should be prepared.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165499/long-covid-america-not-ready

 

Famotidine clinical trial shows reduction in Covid-19 symptoms

https://www.northwell.edu/news/the-latest/famotidine-clinical-trial-shows-reduction-covid-19-symptoms

 

Antidepressants tied to lower COVID-19 death rates

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/11/antidepressants-tied-lower-covid-19-death-rates

 

After Two Years of Covid, the U.S. Economy Is Thriving. We Have the Great Recession to Thank.  Unlike in the last economic crisis, the government didn’t hesitate about spending money during the pandemic.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165635/pandemic-covid-great-recession-economy

 

The Story of the Spanish Flu Ended Before the Virus Did. The Same Is Happening With the Covid Pandemic.  This isn’t the first time society has struggled to make sense of the long tail of a pandemic.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165664/spanish-flu-covid-pandemic-virginia-woolf

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