tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post3267220227438863081..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Open ThreadUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-32002784689874801302020-10-06T12:49:22.569-04:002020-10-06T12:49:22.569-04:00October 6, 2020
Coronavirus
Israel
Cases ( 27...October 6, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />Israel<br /><br />Cases ( 276,439)<br />Deaths ( 1,784)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 194)<br /><br />July 4, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />Israel<br /><br />Cases ( 29,170)<br />Deaths ( 330)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 36)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-69993071550712761442020-10-06T09:10:13.953-04:002020-10-06T09:10:13.953-04:00https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-05/The-lies-tha...https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-05/The-lies-that-infected-Trump-UlAHECE5gI/index.html<br /><br />October 5, 2020<br /><br />The lies that infected Trump<br />By Jeffrey D. Sachs<br /><br />Unlike tens of millions of people around the world who have contracted COVID-19 because of their poverty, bad luck, vulnerability as essential workers, or poor decisions by policymakers, U.S. President Donald Trump's infection is of his own making.<br /><br />Trump's disdain for science and his brazen disregard for public-health advice led directly to his own illness; far worse, they have fueled America's soaring COVID-19 death toll – now at more than 214,000.<br /><br />Since the pandemic began, public health experts around the world have begged the public to wear face masks, avoid large gatherings, and maintain physical distance from others, in order to stop the transmission of the virus. Leave it to Trump, a man of pathological disposition, to reject all such advice.<br /><br />Barely two days before announcing that he and the First Lady had tested positive, Trump was mocking Joe Biden for wearing one. "I don't wear a mask like him," Trump said at the first presidential debate. "Every time you see him, he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away…and he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen."<br /><br />Rejecting appeals by public health experts and local officials, Trump had been holding large rallies both indoors and outdoors in recent months, with non-masked attendees standing close together. And Trump spurned basic precautions in the White House, including physical distancing of staff and requiring face masks in meetings.<br /><br />Trump's recklessness not only exposed himself, his wife, and his entourage to COVID-19; it also encouraged his supporters across America to mock public-health warnings and threaten infectious disease experts, thereby contributing to the spread of the disease. Many Americans lack basic scientific literacy and are easily swayed and encouraged by manipulators like Trump and his allies at Fox News. Trump not only blocked an effective federal public-health response, but incited dangerous behavior by his followers nationwide.<br /><br />Like other world leaders who have contracted COVID-19, Trump could easily have avoided being infected by observing normal public-health strictures. It is not a coincidence that populist politicians in Trump's mold, notably UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, also became infected.<br /><br />Like Trump, both Johnson and Bolsonaro systematically downplayed the threat of the pandemic and brazenly flaunted routine public-health measures. And, like the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil are among the world's hardest-hit countries, with a COVID-19 death rate of 647 per million population in the U.S., 687 in Brazil, and 623 in the UK, compared with a global average death rate of 133 per million....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-32903651272035940102020-10-06T06:52:32.789-04:002020-10-06T06:52:32.789-04:00https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/opinion/joe-bid...https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/opinion/joe-biden-health-care.html<br /><br />October 5, 2020<br /><br />Bidencare Would Be a Big Deal<br />Don’t dismiss it because it isn’t Medicare for All.<br />By Paul Krugman<br /><br />On Monday morning America’s most prominent beneficiary of socialized medicine, in the process of receiving expensive, taxpayer-financed care at a government-run hospital, was tweeting furiously. One of President Trump’s manic missives particularly caught the eyes of health care experts: his exhortation to “PROTECT PREEXISTING CONDITIONS. VOTE!”<br /><br />As always, it’s not clear whether Trump is merely being cynical or whether he is also genuinely ignorant.<br /><br />He’s definitely lying when he claims to have a plan that’s better and cheaper than Obamacare. No such plan exists, and he has to know that.<br /><br />But does he know that Americans with pre-existing medical conditions are already protected by the Affordable Care Act, which his administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn? Does he realize that the reason his party has never offered an acceptable alternative to the A.C.A., in particular an alternative that would protect pre-existing conditions, is that no such alternative is possible? That’s less clear.<br /><br />In any case, how the nation votes will indeed make a huge difference to the future of health care — and not just because Trump, if he holds on to power, will almost surely find a way to destroy Obamacare, causing tens of millions of Americans to lose health insurance. Joe Biden, if he wins (and gets a Democratic Senate), will make a big difference in the other direction, substantially expanding coverage and reducing premiums for middle-class families.<br /><br />The second part of this statement may come as news to many readers, because Biden’s health proposals haven’t drawn much attention so far.<br /><br />Why not? One reason is that the election is — rightly — being seen mainly as a referendum on Trump rather than on likely Democratic policy. Another is that since the Democratic primary fight pitted Biden against rivals calling for radical changes in health policy, many people assume that the winner of that fight, who rejected those radical proposals, wouldn’t change much.<br /><br />But while Biden is indeed proposing incremental change rather than Medicare for All, we’re talking about some big increments. Independent estimates suggest that under Biden’s plan, 15 million to 20 million Americans would gain health insurance. And premiums would fall sharply, especially for middle-class families....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-82058119525922104742020-10-05T20:13:13.804-04:002020-10-05T20:13:13.804-04:00https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/opinion/joe-bid...https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/opinion/joe-biden-health-care.html<br /><br />October 5, 2020<br /><br />Bidencare Would Be a Big Deal<br />Don’t dismiss it because it isn’t Medicare for All.<br />By Paul Krugman<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-69312485937600454862020-10-05T16:39:29.144-04:002020-10-05T16:39:29.144-04:00October 5, 2020
Coronavirus
US
Cases ( 7,668,...October 5, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />US<br /><br />Cases ( 7,668,358)<br />Deaths ( 214,889)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-14071958311934282432020-10-05T15:49:25.046-04:002020-10-05T15:49:25.046-04:00There are 14,176 US coronavirus patients listed as...There are 14,176 US coronavirus patients listed as "serious, critical" on October 5.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-36980685389825441822020-10-05T15:45:53.236-04:002020-10-05T15:45:53.236-04:00https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/health/Covid-pa...https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/health/Covid-patients-mental-state.html<br /><br />October 5, 2020<br /><br />Nearly One-Third of Covid Patients in Study Had Altered Mental State<br />The hospitalized patients showed signs of deteriorating neurological function, ranging from confusion to coma-like unresponsiveness, new research indicates.<br />By Pam Belluck<br /><br />Nearly a third of hospitalized Covid-19 patients experienced some type of altered mental function — ranging from confusion to delirium to unresponsiveness — in the largest study to date of neurological symptoms among coronavirus patients in an American hospital system.<br /><br />And patients with altered mental function had significantly worse medical outcomes, according to the study, * published on Monday in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. The study looked at the records of the first 509 coronavirus patients hospitalized, from March 5 to April 6, at 10 hospitals in the Northwestern Medicine health system in the Chicago area.<br /><br />These patients stayed three times as long in the hospital as patients without altered mental function.<br /><br />After they were discharged, only 32 percent of the patients with altered mental function were able to handle routine daily activities like cooking and paying bills, said Dr. Igor Koralnik, the senior author of the study and chief of neuro-infectious disease and global neurology at Northwestern Medicine. In contrast, 89 percent of patients without altered mental function were able to manage such activities without assistance.<br /><br />Patients with altered mental function — the medical term is encephalopathy — were also nearly seven times as likely to die as those who did not have that type of problem....<br /><br />* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/acn3.51210Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-36743486757274373912020-10-05T15:38:03.101-04:002020-10-05T15:38:03.101-04:00https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/13131200782...https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1313120078293012487<br /><br />Paul Krugman @paulkrugman<br /><br />Words fail me. Numbers too.<br /><br />Max Roser @MaxCRoser<br /><br />In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly. But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog. The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum.<br /><br />10:13 AM · Oct 5, 2020Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-18909794655091119192020-10-05T15:37:32.050-04:002020-10-05T15:37:32.050-04:00October 5, 2020
Coronavirus
UK
Cases ( 515,571)...October 5, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />UK<br /><br />Cases ( 515,571)<br />Deaths ( 42,369)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 623)<br /><br />[ Evidently, just how difficult the situation is in the UK, which I have repeatedly sought to call attention to since the ratio of deaths to cases pointed to an undercount, is now understood. Awful, awful. ]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-75821928231408202752020-10-05T15:37:08.210-04:002020-10-05T15:37:08.210-04:00October 5, 2020
Coronavirus
UK
Cases ( 515,57...October 5, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />UK<br /><br />Cases ( 515,571)<br />Deaths ( 42,369)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 623)<br /><br />Germany<br /><br />Cases ( 304,424)<br />Deaths ( 9,615)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 115)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-68882387986021601122020-10-05T12:59:09.397-04:002020-10-05T12:59:09.397-04:00Having apparently approached a containment of the ...Having apparently approached a containment of the coronavirus in June, the Israeli government incautiously opened schools and businesses, and the result has been a persistent community infection spread contributing to what are now 271,563 cases in the small country as compared to 85,470 in all through all of mainland China.<br /><br />Israel has unfortunately more than three-times the number of coronavirus cases in mainland China. Paul Krugman noticed the Israeli “disaster” on September 14 when there were 160,000 coronavirus cases. The persisting difficulty in limiting a new spread of infections in so highly developed a country has become startling to me. Obviously there is a profound public health infrastructure failing that shows a development failing and has to be addressed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-27033996628954486742020-10-05T12:53:40.329-04:002020-10-05T12:53:40.329-04:00October 5, 2020
Coronavirus
Israel
Cases ( 27...October 5, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />Israel<br /><br />Cases ( 271,563)<br />Deaths ( 1,749)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 190)<br /><br />July 4, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />Israel<br /><br />Cases ( 29,170)<br />Deaths ( 330)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 36)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-7335000995555824622020-10-05T12:07:40.880-04:002020-10-05T12:07:40.880-04:00https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-05/Chinese-main...https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-05/Chinese-mainland-reports-20-new-COVID-19-cases-all-from-overseas-UkFF5KnHt6/index.html<br /><br />October 5, 2020<br /><br />Chinese mainland reports 20 new COVID-19 cases<br /><br />The Chinese mainland on Sunday registered 20 new COVID-19 cases, all from overseas, the National Health Commission announced on Monday.<br /><br />This is the 50th consecutive day with zero domestic transmissions reported on the Chinese mainland. No deaths related to the coronavirus were reported over the past 24 hours while 7 patients were discharged from hospitals.<br /><br />The COVID-19 tally on the Chinese mainland stands at 85,470 infections and 4,634 fatalities, while 369 asymptomatic patients remain under medical observation.<br /><br />[ There has been no coronavirus death on the Chinese mainland since May 17. There has been no community or domestic coronavirus case for 50 days. Since June began there have been only 2 limited community clusters of infections, in Beijing and Urumqi in Xinjiang, both of which were contained with mass testing, contact tracing and quarantine, and both outbreaks ended in a few weeks. Imported coronavirus cases are caught at entry points with required testing and immediate quarantine. Asymptomatic cases are all quarantined. ]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-54300562143518781022020-10-05T12:05:07.898-04:002020-10-05T12:05:07.898-04:00October 4, 2020
Coronavirus (Deaths per million...October 4, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus (Deaths per million)<br /><br />US ( 647)<br />UK ( 623)<br />Mexico ( 610)<br />France ( 493)<br /><br />Canada ( 251)<br />Germany ( 115)<br />India ( 74)<br />China ( 3)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-21266908195055495712020-10-05T12:03:51.027-04:002020-10-05T12:03:51.027-04:00October 4, 2020
Coronavirus
US
Cases ( 7,636,...October 4, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />US<br /><br />Cases ( 7,636,912)<br />Deaths ( 214,611)<br /><br />India<br /><br />Cases ( 6,622,180)<br />Deaths ( 102,714)<br /><br />Mexico<br /><br />Cases ( 757,953)<br />Deaths ( 78,880)<br /><br />France<br /><br />Cases ( 619,190)<br />Deaths ( 32,230)<br /><br />UK<br /><br />Cases ( 502,978)<br />Deaths ( 42,350)<br /><br />Germany<br /><br />Cases ( 301,571)<br />Deaths ( 9,602)<br /><br />Canada<br /><br />Cases ( 166,156)<br />Deaths ( 9,481)<br /><br />China<br /><br />Cases ( 85,450)<br />Deaths ( 4,634)<br /><br />[ Infections appear to be spreading significantly again in western Europe. ]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-44709423920709854222020-10-05T11:52:26.408-04:002020-10-05T11:52:26.408-04:00Surely there is a profound, tragic problem in infr...Surely there is a profound, tragic problem in infrastructure development in the UK:<br /><br />October 5, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />UK<br /><br />Cases ( 515,571)<br />Deaths ( 42,369)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 623)<br /><br />Germany<br /><br />Cases ( 302,542)<br />Deaths ( 9,606)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 115)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-20429211724236415632020-10-05T09:44:40.011-04:002020-10-05T09:44:40.011-04:00https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-sta...https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-10-02/capitalism-after-covid-19-pandemic<br /><br />October 2, 2020<br /><br />Capitalism After the Pandemic<br />Getting the Recovery Right<br />By Mariana Mazzucato<br /><br />After the 2008 financial crisis, governments across the world injected over $3 trillion into the financial system. The goal was to unfreeze credit markets and get the global economy working again. But instead of supporting the real economy—the part that involves the production of actual goods and services—the bulk of the aid ended up in the financial sector. Governments bailed out the big investment banks that had directly contributed to the crisis, and when the economy got going again, it was those companies that reaped the rewards of the recovery. Taxpayers, for their part, were left with a global economy that was just as broken, unequal, and carbon-intensive as before. “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” goes a popular policymaking maxim. But that is exactly what happened.<br /><br />Now, as countries are reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns, they must avoid making the same mistake. In the months after the virus first surfaced, governments stepped in to address the concomitant economic and health crises, rolling out stimulus packages to protect jobs, issuing rules to slow the spread of the disease, and investing in the research and development of treatments and vaccines. These rescue efforts are necessary. But it is not enough for governments to simply intervene as the spender of last resort when markets fail or crises occur. They should actively shape markets so that they deliver the kind of long-term outcomes that benefit everyone.<br /><br />The world missed the opportunity to do that back in 2008, but fate has handed it another chance....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-76739244243373220712020-10-04T15:59:07.390-04:002020-10-04T15:59:07.390-04:00October 4, 2020
Coronavirus
Israel
Cases ( 26...October 4, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />Israel<br /><br />Cases ( 266,775)<br />Deaths ( 1,719)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 187)<br /><br />July 4, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />Israel<br /><br />Cases ( 29,170)<br />Deaths ( 330)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 36)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-56382271747749805682020-10-04T14:54:12.865-04:002020-10-04T14:54:12.865-04:00October 3, 2020
Coronavirus
New York
Cases ( ...October 3, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />New York<br /><br />Cases ( 498,034)<br />Deaths ( 33,290)<br /><br />Deaths per million ( 1,711)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-10412861143453127042020-10-04T14:53:31.480-04:002020-10-04T14:53:31.480-04:00https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/nyregion/nyc-co...https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/nyregion/nyc-covid-shutdown-zip-codes.html<br /><br />October 4, 2020<br /><br />In Reversal, N.Y.C. Will Close Schools and Businesses in Hard-Hit Areas<br />“Today, unfortunately, is not a day for celebration,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said. His plan would affect nine neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens.<br />By Dana Rubinstein, Daniel E. Slotnik and Eliza ShapiroAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-64233325154006321522020-10-04T12:31:44.725-04:002020-10-04T12:31:44.725-04:00There has been no coronavirus death on the Chinese...There has been no coronavirus death on the Chinese mainland since May 17. There has been no community or domestic coronavirus case for 49 days. Since June began there have been only 2 limited community clusters of infections, in Beijing and Urumqi in Xinjiang, both of which were contained with mass testing, contact tracing and quarantine, and both outbreaks ended in a few weeks. Imported coronavirus cases are caught at entry points with required testing and immediate quarantine. Asymptomatic cases are all quarantined.<br /><br />The flow of imported cases to China is low, but has been persistent. There are as a result 195 active imported coronavirus cases on the Chinese mainland, but of which only 2 cases are classed as serious or critical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-75653342203732216412020-10-04T12:31:03.473-04:002020-10-04T12:31:03.473-04:00https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-04/Chinese-main...https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-04/Chinese-mainland-reports-16-new-COVID-19-cases-all-from-overseas-Uj38CDd0yY/index.html<br /><br />October 4, 2020<br /><br />Chinese mainland reports 16 new COVID-19 cases<br /><br />The Chinese mainland on Saturday registered 16 new COVID-19 cases, all from overseas, the National Health Commission announced on Sunday.<br /><br />This is the 49th consecutive day with zero domestic transmissions reported on the Chinese mainland. No deaths related to the coronavirus were reported over the past 24 hours while 10 patients were discharged from hospitals.<br /><br />COVID-19 tally on the Chinese mainland stands at 85,450 infections and 4,634 fatalities, while 366 asymptomatic patients remain under medical observation.<br /><br />Chinese mainland new imported cases<br /><br />https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-04/Chinese-mainland-reports-16-new-COVID-19-cases-all-from-overseas-Uj38CDd0yY/img/3047203ff5d0428796d653c28de57110/3047203ff5d0428796d653c28de57110.jpeg<br /><br />Chinese mainland new asymptomatic cases<br /><br />https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-04/Chinese-mainland-reports-16-new-COVID-19-cases-all-from-overseas-Uj38CDd0yY/img/c6e344532b044d21870d5e7f102ac40a/c6e344532b044d21870d5e7f102ac40a.jpegAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-13635060167294239082020-10-04T12:29:53.896-04:002020-10-04T12:29:53.896-04:00October 3, 2020
Coronavirus (Deaths per million...October 3, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus (Deaths per million)<br /><br />US ( 646)<br />UK ( 623)<br />Mexico ( 607)<br />France ( 493)<br /><br />Canada ( 250)<br />Germany ( 114)<br />India ( 74)<br />China ( 3)<br /><br />Notice the ratios of deaths to coronavirus cases are 8.8%, 10.4% and 5.3% for the United Kingdom, Mexico and France respectively. These ratios are high, but have been significantly higher, while falling recently.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-64999229278842396822020-10-04T12:25:38.092-04:002020-10-04T12:25:38.092-04:00October 3, 2020
Coronavirus
US
Cases ( 7,600,...October 3, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />US<br /><br />Cases ( 7,600,846)<br />Deaths ( 214,277)<br /><br />India<br /><br />Cases ( 6,547,413)<br />Deaths ( 101,812)<br /><br />Mexico<br /><br />Cases ( 753,090)<br />Deaths ( 78,492)<br /><br />France<br /><br />Cases ( 606,625)<br />Deaths ( 32,198)<br /><br />UK<br /><br />Cases ( 480,017)<br />Deaths ( 42,317)<br /><br />Germany<br /><br />Cases ( 300,028)<br />Deaths ( 9,597)<br /><br />Canada<br /><br />Cases ( 164,471)<br />Deaths ( 9,462)<br /><br />China<br /><br />Cases ( 85,434)<br />Deaths ( 4,634)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-43154454132615478652020-10-03T19:35:55.313-04:002020-10-03T19:35:55.313-04:00October 3, 2020
Coronavirus
US
Cases ( 7,600,...October 3, 2020<br /><br />Coronavirus<br /><br />US<br /><br />Cases ( 7,600,141)<br />Deaths ( 214,269)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com