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The biggest supply chain risk right now?
Trump administration officials are asking India to lift restrictions to give the U.S. access to pharmaceutical...
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A new NBER paper on the Wuhan lockdown
We quantify the causal impact of human mobility restrictions, particularly the lockdown of the city of...
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My 2009 health care policy recommendations
8. Invest more in pandemic preparation. By now it should be obvious how critical this is. It’s fine...
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Safety Protocols and Zones of Quarantine
Carl Danner writes me: “Essential activities” has no objective definition. It implies some blanket degree of...
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German Federalism
NPR: “We have a culture here in Germany that is actually not supporting a centralized diagnostic...
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My Conversation with Ross Douthat
We do another CWT, here is the audio and transcript (link corrected), a very good installment...
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New York Will Try Convalescent Blood Therapy
On March 17 I wrote: “A simple and medically feasible strategy is available now for treating...
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Suggest regulatory pauses
Suggest Regulatory Pauses Is there some government regulation or rule that is keeping you from helping...
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FDA Stops At-Home Tests
TechCrunch…the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its Emergency Use Authorization guidelines to private...
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The Internal Contradictions of Segregating the Elderly
There are two problems even internal contradictions with segregating the elderly and letting others return to...
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Arguments Against International Trade in Modern Principles of Economics
In our textbook, Modern Principles of Economics, Tyler and I explain the benefits of free trade...
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European fatality rates and lawfulness
Correlation ain’t causation, but nonetheless it is worth looking at correlation: Via Daniel Wilson. And here...
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The three ideas you all are writing me the most about
1. Segregating old people, and letting others go about their regular business. Given how many older...
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The Coronavirus Killed the Progressive Left
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column. Yes trolling, but trolling with the truth. ...
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The coronavirus polity that is Australia
And, despite not knowing what threat the SETREP-ID would be enacted for, the group had pre-emptive...
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My Coronavirus Conversation with Russ Roberts
We recorded this two days ago on the spur of the moment, the discussion is still...
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NIOSH — National Institute for Safety and Health
I’ve been working on an N95 mask production project with a team for about a week...
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FDA senior scientists
“The White House considered issuing an executive order greatly expanding the use of investigational drugs against...
