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Why a booster might be necessary

“Eissenberg: Why a booster might be necessary,” Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Washington University, Linda Eissenberg, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 26, 2021. Professor Linda Eissenberg has spent over two decades studying microbial pathogens and has worked over 13 years on immunotherapies for cancer. _____________ Even people who were vaccinated are expressing anxiety these days, wondering whether they’ll be protected...

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ΣΥΝΕΝΤΕΥΞΗ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΣΤΑΥΡΟ ΜΑΥΡΟΥΔΕΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΝΔΗΜΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΙΣ ΣΥΝΕΠΕΙΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ – Bollettino Culturale

ΣΥΝΕΝΤΕΥΞΗ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΣΤΑΥΡΟ ΜΑΥΡΟΥΔΕΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΝΔΗΜΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΙΣ ΣΥΝΕΠΕΙΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ – Bollettino Culturale Ο ιταλικός ιστότοπος Bollettino Culturale φιλοξένησε την ακόλουθη συνέντευξη με τον Σταύρο Μαυρουδέα σχετικά με την πανδημία COVID-19 και τις συνέπειές της στην οικονομία και την εργασία https://bollettinoculturale.blogspot.com/2021/07/intervista-stavros-mavroudeas-sulla.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR3zji71ezVNRABTmQbI4k-Uf7MYewhy26pdjmXISxlH2FdhMygmRs 1. Πώς...

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INTERVIEW WITH STAVROS MAVROUDEAS ON THE PANDEMIC AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON THE ECONOMY AND WORK – Bollettino Culturale

The italian website Bollettino Culturale hosted the following interview with Stavros Mavroudeas on the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences on the economy and labour https://bollettinoculturale.blogspot.com/2021/07/intervista-stavros-mavroudeas-sulla.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR3zji71ezVNRABTmQbI4k-Uf7MYewhy26pdjmXISxlH2FdhMygmRswj_qs 1. How do you judge the management of the pandemic in the European Union? I have argued elsewhere...

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Covid Pandemic Causes the Biggest Drop in U.S. Life Expectancy

Black and Brown Americans suffer the most in biggest U.S. drop in life expectancy since WWII, Modern Healthcare, June 2021 In an earlier post listing a series of articles I thought might be interesting to AB, this one Modern Healthcare article was listed as one of interest. I decided to expand on the article and allow it more space and subsequent detail. The advent of Covid, lack of medical access, and subsequent resistance to vaccinations has...

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«Η Πολιτική Οικονομία του covid-19 & οι επιπτώσεις της πανδημίας σε επιλεγμένες ευρωπαϊκές χώρες» – Στ.Μαυρουδέας & Χρ.Παρασκευοπούλου

Κυκλοφόρησε από τις εκδόσεις ΤΟΠΟΣ ο συλλογικός τόμος «Πανδημία COVID-19 και οι σύγχρονες απειλές στη δημόσια υγεία» που επιμελήθηκαν επιστημονικά οι Ηλίας Κονδύλης, αναπληρωτής καθηγητής Πρωτοβάθμιας Φροντίδας Υγείας – Πολιτικής της Υγείας στο Τμήμα Ιατρικής του ΑΠΘ, και Αλέξης Μπένος, ομότιμος καθηγητής Υγιεινής – Κοινωνικής Ιατρικής στο ΑΠΘ. Στον συλλογικό τόμο εμπεριέχεται κεφάλαιο με τίτλο «Η Πολιτική Οικονομία του covid-19 & οι επιπτώσεις της πανδημίας σε επιλεγμένες...

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The 2021 federal budget

I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of the recent federal budget. The link to the post is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/ten-things-to-know-about-canadas-2021-federal-budget/ Nick Falvo is a Calgary-based research consultant with a PhD in Public Policy. He has academic affiliation at both Carleton University and Case Western Reserve University, and is Section Editor of the Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue canadienne de politique sociale. You can check out his...

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IPA’s weekly links

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. A quick note, my posting frequency has slowed down in 2021, thanks for sticking with it. One reason has been that I’ve been co-authoring another set of links with my brilliant IPA colleagues, Luciana Debenedetti & Rachel Strohm, every other week focused on new research on COVID and social protection (this week’s is here). Among other, I think I also hit what I now realize was a quarantine burnout. If it’s helpful to anybody...

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The politics of vaccine-stretching

When the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were first approved, it was clear that they were highly effective at preventing covid and that they would be in short supply for months.  The clinical trial data also suggested that, at least in the short-run, one dose of the vaccines would provide almost as much protection against covid as the two-dose protocol that was tested and approved by the FDA.  This led a number of economists and public health...

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Coronavirus dashboard for March 15: good news, and cause for concern

Coronavirus dashboard for March 15: good news, and cause for concern A year ago today I wrote about the accuracy of Jim Bianco’s forecast of exponential spread of COVID-19. At that time there were exactly 2952 cases, but increasing at 30% each day, and I wrote, “I have not seen any government action significant enough to stop this exponential projection being correct.”  As of yesterday, there have been 29,438,775 *confirmed* cases – 9% of the...

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