health care
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Following COVID-19, it’s time we rethink our medical care system.
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Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic is reading that non-pharmaceutical interventions like social distancing, stay-at-home orders, and business closures are saving lives. They are not.
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Health CareScienceTobacco
Nicotine Policy Should Not Be Exempt From Science
by Jeff Stier May 5, 2020There seems to be an inclination among policy-makers that adherence to evidence-based policy-making is a luxury we can only afford when not in a crisis.
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Health Care
Pritzker Scrubs Hands and Crucial COVID Testing Data
by Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold May 5, 2020As of now, every bit of COVID-19 good news is being buried or tainted with doubts.
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Clinical trials do more than inform us whether a drug is effective. They inform us when a drug is effective, in what combinations, in what dosages, and what are the counter indications.
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We have experienced unprecedented economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing policies. Twenty two million Americans lost jobs in four weeks.
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GovernmentHealth CareLiberty
Don’t Gobble Up Government Surveillance Just Because of COVID-19
by Chris Talgo April 15, 2020Due to coronavirus, governments across the globe are considering and/or are doing something they certainly could not do before: implement mass surveillance programs to track COVID-19 patients.
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We have yet to record meaningful samples of the general population with regard to the prevalence of coronavirus, the distribution of its outcomes, and the build-up of immunity.
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GovernmentHealth Care
Will There Be Tyranny in the Post-Coronavirus World?
by Richard Ebeling April 14, 2020The coronavirus crisis will be considered one of the most important global events of the early decades of the 21st century.
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If the COVID-19 crisis has taught us one thing—aside from the need to wash your hands often—it is that the FDA’s approval process for much-needed medicine to those with debilitating and terminal diseases is in dire need of reform.
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EconomicsFeaturedHealth Care
The Pandemic or the Recession: Which is More Costly?
by Daniel Sutter April 13, 2020The United States has taken unprecedented actions to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus and the illness it causes, COVID-19. How bad will this be for the economy?
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In its first decade, ObamaCare has failed to solve many of the health care problems it was supposed to address.
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The word has leaked out on a potential cheap treatment for COVID-19, the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine.