Our On-Going Covid Pandemic and the Labor Market
[ad_1] By Lambert Strether of Corrente. My previous round-up on Covid and “the economy” focused mainly on macro economic effects like GDP, or the total cost of Long Covid (“17% of pre-COVID US GDP). In this post, I want to dig deeper into Covid and the labor market. First, in what may look like a […]
The US Government Sent Millions of Grant Dollars to Alleged COVID ‘Patient Zero,’ Documents Show
[ad_1] In June, The New York Times ran an exposé detailing the tragedy that we may never know the origins of COVID-19. “For three years, the U.S. government has been tied in knots over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, frustrated that China’s hindrance of investigations and unwillingness to look critically at its own research […]
This Week in Long Covid: Nature Fires Salvo of Four Major Papers
[ad_1] By Lambert Strether of Corrente Science is popping! Nature’s editors[1] and reviewers must have had quite at time doing all these papers more or less at once. And it’s certainly encouraging to see Long Covid[2] getting major play. In this simple post, I’ll present the most salient features of each of the four studies […]
Is There a Covid Wastewater Spike in New York City?
[ad_1] By Lambert Strether of Corrente. With respect to “upticks” — Covid “upticks” going up, “plummets” going down — both Covid and the public health establishment (and the political class (and the press)) have form, well pictured in this maybe-famous chart: I have been thinking about how different people interpret data differently. And made this […]
Covid caused huge shortages in the jobs market. It may be easing
[ad_1] Now Hiring signs are displayed in front of restaurants in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on March 19, 2022. Stefani Reynolds | Afp | Getty Images Since the onset of Covid-19, labor shortages have plagued major economies and intensified inflationary pressures, but economists expect this trend to finally abate this year. Central banks around the world […]
Philip Zelikow and the Covid Crisis Group’s “Lessons from a Covid War”: A Pre-Review
[ad_1] By Lambert Strether of Corrente. The Covid Crisis Group (CCG), chaired, or as we say these days, “led,” by former 9/11 Executive Director Philip Zelikow, is launching their book, Lessons from a Covid War (LCW), tomorrow. I will, of course, buy the book and review it at some point in the near future, but […]
Why You Should Never Use an AI for Advice about Your Health, Especially Covid
[ad_1] By Lambert Strether of Corrente Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere… I certainly wasn’t going to give OpenAI my phone number in order to set up an account to pose a question to our modern-day oracle, so naturally I turned to Google, and after a genuinely hideous Google […]
COVID and Tradeoffs – Econlib
[ad_1] My frequent co-author Charley Hooper, Stanford epidemiologist and economist Jay Bhattacharya, and I met for lunch in Palo Alto on Friday. See pic above. Not surprisingly, much of what we discussed was the ways in which Twitter, at the behest of various major players, tried to shut Jay down. He was so often accused […]
People Should be “Seething Mad” Over COVID – And Much More
[ad_1] From early in 2020 until well into 2022, government officials in most countries imposed an array of draconian policies that were said to be necessary to protect the populace against COVID-19. In supposedly democratic nations like the United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, officials didn’t bother with legislation – they just […]
Chinese factories launch charm offensive for buyers after Covid isolation
[ad_1] Chinese factory owners and exporters are launching a charm offensive to woo back buyers as they face sluggish global demand that has stymied their recovery from three years of isolation under Beijing’s zero-Covid policy. Local Chinese governments have organised delegations of exporters to trade shows across the US and Europe to drum up business, […]