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Economics in One Virus - Marginal REVOLUTION

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Atul Gawande and Zeke Emanuel Now Support Delaying the Second Dose - Marginal REVOLUTION

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Many people are coming around to First Doses First, i.e delaying the second dose to ~12...
Many people are coming around to First Doses First, i.e delaying the second dose to ~12 weeks. Atul Gawande, for example, tweeted: As cases and hospitalizations rise again, we can’t count on behavior alone reversing this course. Therefore, it’s time for the Biden admin to delay 2nd vax doses to 12 weeks. Getting as ...

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From the comments, on Covid and our response - Marginal REVOLUTION

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It is simply not a tenable policy to oppose pandemic lockdowns on the premise that COVID-19...
It is simply not a tenable policy to oppose pandemic lockdowns on the premise that COVID-19 only negatively affects a certain portion of the population. First, the fact that COVID-19 disproportionately killed the elderly was not something that was readily apparent right out of the box, when the virus was spreading r...

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Russ Roberts and I revisit the pandemic, one year later, in an EconTalk podcast - Marginal REVOLUTION

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In praise of Alex Tabarrok - Marginal REVOLUTION

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Here’s a question I’ve been mulling in recent months: Is Alex Tabarrok right? Are people dying...
Here’s a question I’ve been mulling in recent months: Is Alex Tabarrok right? Are people dying because our coronavirus response is far too conservative? I don’t mean conservative in the politicized, left-right sense. Tabarrok, an economist at George Mason University and a blogger at Marginal Revolution, is a liberta...

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The Chinese vaccine passport uses relative prices

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China raised the stakes in the international vaccine competition on Saturday, saying that foreigners wishing to...
China raised the stakes in the international vaccine competition on Saturday, saying that foreigners wishing to enter the Chinese mainland from Hong Kong will face fewer paperwork requirements if they are inoculated with Chinese-made coronavirus vaccines. The policy announcement, which covers foreigners applying for visas in the Chinese territory, comes a day after the United States, […] The post The Chinese vaccine passport uses relative...

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FDA Postpones Inspections Delaying New Drugs and Creating Shortages of Old Drugs

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NYTimes: The Covid-19 pandemic has forced the Food and Drug Administration to postpone hundreds of drug...
NYTimes: The Covid-19 pandemic has forced the Food and Drug Administration to postpone hundreds of drug company inspections, creating an enormous backlog that is delaying new drug approvals and leading the industry to warn of impending shortages of existing medicines. …In an interview, F.D.A. officials said they sharply curtailed the inspections to protect their investigators, […] The post FDA Postpones Inspections Delaying New Drugs...

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Why vaccination passports probably won’t work well

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That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: One issue is...
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: One issue is what exactly constitutes proof of vaccination. For my vaccinations, I have been issued a rather flimsy, easy-to-forge paper document from the Centers for Disease Control. Unlike a passport or a dollar bill, it has no embedded watermarks or other […] The post Why vaccination passports probably won’t work...

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My excellent Conversation with John Cochrane

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Here is the audio, transcript, and video. So many good parts it is hard to excerpt,...
Here is the audio, transcript, and video. So many good parts it is hard to excerpt, here is part of the summary: John joined Tyler to apply that habit of mind to a number of puzzles, including why real interest rates don’t equalize across countries, what explains why high trading volumes and active management persist […] The post My excellent Conversation with John Cochrane...

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Detroit Fauci

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The mayor of Detroit has turned down an allocation of the J&J vaccine. Detroit Mayor Mike...
The mayor of Detroit has turned down an allocation of the J&J vaccine. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan declined an initial allocation of the newly authorized Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine….”So, Johnson & Johnson is a very good vaccine. Moderna and Pfizer are the best. And I am going to do everything I can to make […] The post Detroit Fauci appeared first on Marginal...

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Canada: An Official Strong Recommendation for First Doses First

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Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), a scientific advisory group to the government, has made...
Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), a scientific advisory group to the government, has made a forceful and dramatic statement strongly favoring First Doses First (delay the second dose.) This is a very big deal for the entire world. Basically NACI have endorsed everything that Tyler and I have said on First Doses First […] The post Canada: An Official Strong Recommendation for...

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Following the science? — the show so far

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As the pace of recovery quickens, and most balance sheets continue to look decent, it seems...
As the pace of recovery quickens, and most balance sheets continue to look decent, it seems increasingly obvious that $1.9 trillion is too much to spend. We are spending at least $1 trillion too much, with very little investment to show for it, and $1 trillion is a lot of money. Heaven forbid they should […] The post Following the science? — the show...

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UK to fast track drug trials

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Drugmakers will be offered fast-tracked approvals for innovative medicines in the UK as ministers seek to...
Drugmakers will be offered fast-tracked approvals for innovative medicines in the UK as ministers seek to build on the country’s world-leading approval of a Covid vaccine and attract life sciences companies to invest post-Brexit. The UK’s medicines regulator will become independent of EU pharmaceutical rulemaking when Britain quits the European Medicines Agency at the end […] The post UK to fast track drug trials...

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Potential yet still thwarted Filipino nurse vaccine barter markets in everything?

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The Philippines will let thousands of its health care workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in...
The Philippines will let thousands of its health care workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in Britain and Germany if the two countries agree to donate coronavirus vaccines, a senior official said on Tuesday. Britain’s health ministry said it was not interested in such a deal and its priority was to use shots domestically, but added it […] The post Potential yet still thwarted Filipino nurse...

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A Majority of Doses are Now Second Doses

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As of Feb. 18 (last day of full data) we gave out 817,708 second doses and...
As of Feb. 18 (last day of full data) we gave out 817,708 second doses and just 702,426 first doses. In other words, a majority of doses are now second doses. As Daniel Bier writes this means that we are boosting some people from ~85% to ~95% protected when we could be vaccinating more first […] The post A Majority of Doses are Now...

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The AstraZeneca Vaccine Works Well

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A new study looking at essentially the entirety of the Scottish population finds that both the...
A new study looking at essentially the entirety of the Scottish population finds that both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine work very well at preventing hospitalizations from the first dose. UK policy for use of vaccines against COVID-19 involves an offer of a first dose followed by a second dose 12 weeks later. To our […] The post The AstraZeneca Vaccine Works Well appeared...

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Hungary’s Vaccine Approval Rule

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AP: Hungarian health authorities were the first in the EU to approve the Sinopharm jab for...
AP: Hungarian health authorities were the first in the EU to approve the Sinopharm jab for emergency use on Jan. 29. That came after a government decree streamlined Hungary’s vaccine approval process by allowing any vaccine administered to at least 1 million people worldwide to be used without undergoing review by the country’s medicines regulator. […] The post Hungary’s Vaccine Approval Rule appeared first...

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Against Regulatory Nationalism

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I’ve long argued that if a drug or medical device is approved in another country with...
I’ve long argued that if a drug or medical device is approved in another country with a Stringent Regulatory Authority it ought to be approved in the United States. But, of course, the argument is even stronger in the other direction. Drugs and devices approved in the United States ought to be approved elsewhere. Indeed, […] The post Against Regulatory Nationalism appeared first on...

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