Friday Links
Top 10 HEOR trends in 2020. Marketing works: Informational outreach and the insurance mandate. Delivery system performance as financial risk varies Another failed intervention targeting superutilizers. Cancer and coronavirus.
Category: Current Events
COVID-19 projected to be #7 cause of death in the US in 2020
On March 9, I wrote a post titled “COVID-19 in context” which showed that COVID-19 (annualized) death rate would make it the the 27th leading cause of death worldwide. By March 21st, it was the 17th leading cause of death. Now, on March 31st, COVID-19 is the 13th leading cause of death (worldwide), if we…
The coronavirus bailout package in one picture
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has been passed by the Senate and signed by the President. There are mixed opinions about this specific bill, but certainly a bailout/relief package of some size was needed. What is in the package? The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has a nice visualization.
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COVID-19 Links What’s coming with COVID-19? The cost of sending everyone checks. Hotel industry cuts 40% of workers due to COVID-19. Inter Miami promotes social distancing. NBA player’s mom in coma due to COVID-19 Other links: What’s in the bailout bill. Decreasing marginal returns to drunk driving stringency? Did Medicaid expansion increase access to opioid…
Is “Big Pharma” really the problem?
As for other “moneyed interests,” no fewer than 30 Big Pharma and small biotech firms are racing for treatments and vaccines. Moderna turned around a vaccine batch in just 42 days. Gilead Sciences is already in Phase 3 trials for its remdesivir treatment for Covid-19. Straight off President Trump’s announcement of FDA approval for antimalarial…
COVID-19 now top 20 cause of death worldwide
On March 9, I wrote a post titled “COVID-19 in context” which showed that COVID-19 was the 27th leading cause of death worldwide. Now that we are two weeks later, it is worth revisiting where we are. As you can see from the WHO situation report from March 22, the growth in the number of…
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Failure of federal government vaccine manufacturing. Drug dispensing via vending machines? Trebek. Health economics use in designing adaptive clinical trials. Did ACA reduce crime? Is a sales tax better than a fat tax?
COVID-19 Math
Interesting video on exponential growth, logistic curves, contagious disease and COVID-19 from the always enlightening 3Blue1Brown.
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COVID-19: Graphical display of WHO Situation Reports NBA suspends season. NCAA tournament cancelled. Showing some Love. Non-COVID-19 What is hypocognition? What is hyper-subadditivity? Inequality after age 65.
Friday Links
All praise the fist bump. Problems with U.S. coronavirus testing protocols. Health Affairs’ ACA at 10 series. Living with multiple sclerosis. Which programming language is best for economics research?