Sunday, April 10, 2022

Economics and Coronavirus related links 041122


The Vicious Cycle of Covid-19 and Economic Inequality: The pandemic widened the gaps between the haves and have-nots—thus sowing the seeds of the next pandemic.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165719/covid-19-economic-inequality-vicious-cycle

 

Year Three of the Covid Pandemic: Two years ago this week, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic.  Here’s what we’ve learned – and refused to learn – as the virus rages on.

https://newrepublic.com/series/18/covid-pandemic-who-anniversary-year-three

 

The “Solidarity” Trap: Our failures of pandemic solidarity cost lives. Ukraine is testing our solidarity in another way.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165694/ukraine-covid-solidarity

 

The Pandemic Sparked a Golden Age of Crypto Scams: Depraved grifters compounded the misery of Covid-19 by defrauding Americans through bitcoin, NFTs, and meme stocks.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165663/covid-19-pandemic-fraud-crypto-nfts-bitcoin

 

This Is How Covid Started. And Here’s How We Stop the Next One.  The lab leak theory is dead. Covid-19’s true origins show why we need better disease surveillance of wild and domesticated animals alike.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165667/covid-started-heres-stop-next-one

 

The Pandemic Gave America a Painfully Brief Glimpse of a Better Health Care System: The massive government interventions that buffered Covid-19’s ravages are fading away, returning us to an unacceptable status quo.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165640/pandemic-broken-health-care-system

 

The Atlantic Daily: Feminism Has Never Been Enough.  Two writers challenge common ideas about feminism and gender.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/03/womens-history-month-feminism-sexism/627047/

 

CDC's new COVID metrics can leave individuals struggling to understand their risk

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/03/10/1085797307/cdcs-new-covid-metrics-can-leave-individuals-struggling-to-understand-their-risk

 

COVID-19 Metrics for United States Congressional Districts

https://geographicinsights.iq.harvard.edu/coviduscongress

 

Public policy and health in the Trump era

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/fulltext

 

COVID-19 STATS FOR March 13, 2022

https://pdamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/COVID-stats-3-13-2022.pdf

 

21st Century Economic Bill of Rights

https://berniesanders.com/21st-century-economic-bill-of-rights/

 

PDA Calls Upon Progressive Candidates to Endorse a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights

https://pdamerica.org/pda-calls-upon-progressive-candidates-to-endorse-a-21st-century-economic-bill-of-rights/

 

Amazon Misses Trump, Badly: The Biden administration’s growing antitrust activity surprised the corporate behemoth, which had expected kid gloves from Democrats.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165722/amazon-biden-antitrust-monopoly-bezos

 

CDC: Omicron variant BA.2 spreading rapidly across New York and New Jersey

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/omicron-variant-ba2-ny-nj/

 

Too Fast or Too Furious?  More people are dying in traffic crashes. Is pandemic rage to blame?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165661/rise-traffic-deaths-car-crashes-pandemic-stress

 

The Hypocrisy of Biden's New "Blame the Unvaccinated" Strategy: As long as we’re blaming individuals, we are not talking about how the Biden administration’s policies are failing the world.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-blame-unvaccinated-patent-waiver-global-south-public-health

 

“Queremos Vivir”: The Workers Who Wouldn’t Die for the Pentagon.  Maquiladora workers in the border city of Mexicali strike against working conditions.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/workerstrike-bordercity-pandemic-mexicali-manquiladoras-how-workers-fought-against-weapons-companies-workers-rights-covid19

 

‘I Still Just Worry’: 3 Teachers on Covid’s Long Shadow Over American Schools

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/19/sunday-review/pandemic-school-education.html

 

Why Does the CDC Keep Screwing Up?  Two years into the Covid pandemic, the agency is still confusing the public with contradictory, erratic messaging.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165827/cdc-communication-face-masks-walensky-risk

 

California Cautiously Charts Recovery from COVID-19 Pandemic
https://www.populist.com/28.06.Sandronsky.html

 

How covid brain fog may overlap with ‘chemo brain’ and Alzheimer’s: Researchers say the brain inflammation in long covid is similar to that in cancer patients

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/03/27/covid-brain-fog-chemo-brain-alzheimers-disease/

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