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It might be the next best thing to a coronavirus vaccine. Scientists have devised a way to use the antibody-rich blood plasma of COVID-19 survivors for an upper-arm injection that they say could inoculate people against the virus for months. Using technology that’s been proven effective in preventing other diseases such as hepatitis A, the […]
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That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column. I suggest it will take three major forms, namely anti-China, pro-internet as a communications medium (as an offset to left-wing media), and dislike of the Left, most of all the latter. Note these are predictions rather than normative claims about what should happen. Here is one […]
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1. As I had promised I would report, there is now an uptick in the seven day moving average for Covid-19 deaths, take a look. Here is a claim that the increase is a reporting spike, due to previously unreported past deaths. At the present time I am unable to confirm the actual distribution of […]
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That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: Some of the very worst treatment of the vulnerable is hardly being discussed. There is an entire category of American adults being denied almost all of their basic legal rights: to hold a job, choose a residence, determine their health care, enter […]
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1. What the auction listing for a campus looks like. 2. As fewer kids played football, hospitals saw a big drop in ER visits. 3. Polite explanations of why so many professional athletes test positive for coronavirus (NYT). Why can’t they just come out and write the likely truth about multiple sex partners? 4. Response […]
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One of the most confounding aspects of the pandemic has been Congress’s unwillingness or inability to spend to fight the virus. As I said in the LA Times: If an invader rained missiles down on cities across the United States killing thousands of people, we would fight back. Yet despite spending trillions on unemployment insurance […]
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It used to be called The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, but the later title was Return on the Primitive. It was published in 1971, but sometimes drawn from slightly earlier essays. I wondered if a revisit might shed light on the current day, and here is what I learned: 1. “The New Left is […]
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In the United States that is, link here, photo here: In other words, lockdown and shelter at home have limited some of the otherwise risky activities that young people engage in. Excess deaths more generally seem to have reached a normal range, albeit at the upper end of that range: I wouldn’t want to call […]
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1. An American remake of Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage? 2. Is plastic surgery becoming a countercyclical sector? 3. What Andrew Batson has been listening to. 4. Roman ring mystery thread Tolkien. 5. Feds raid art forgery factory. 6. Further advances with monoclonal antibodies.
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1. Thor Heyderdahl vindicated (NYT). 2. Just a bit more distancing and Sweden suddenly fell to 17 deaths per week? 3. Heterogeneities in who is most vulnerable, amazing data set (NYT). Original research is here. 4. Ross Douthat thread on free speech and coalitions. 5. They are solving for the equilibrium: “NYPD limits retirement applications […]
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