Tuesday, September 29, 2020

NY Times Op-Ed: Maybe Roe v. Wade Isn't Worth Fighting For Anymore

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UC-Hastings law professor Joan Williams writes in today's NY Times ("The Case for Accepting Defeat on Roe," 9/29/2020) one of...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

KFF Report on Trump's Health Care Record

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We can expect health care (and HC reform) to be a major policy focus of the fall presidential campaign. The president's record is long a...
Friday, September 11, 2020

The Case for the Saliva-Based Antibody Test, Rather than PCR Test, to Reopen Society Safely

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Co-authors A. David Paltiel & Rochelle P. Walensky write in today's Health Affairs blog that we shouldn't be put off by the 30%...

The Latest from The Atlantic's Ed Yong on Where We Are Headed with COVID-19

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Yong is quite possibly the best journalist covering the pandemic beat -- knowledgeable about the science, perceptive in spotting trends. His...

A Look at the Top-Down Management of the Coronavirus by Gov. Cuomo: WSJ's Series

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The latest in the Wall Street Journal 's series, "The COVID Storm," is critical of Governor Cuomo's insistence on control...
Tuesday, September 08, 2020

$10,984 for a COVID-19 Antibody Test? Yes.

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This is like one of those kid's puzzles -- Can You Spot the Errors in This Picture? -- with upside-down swings hanging up  from tree bra...
Monday, September 07, 2020

"‘Really Diabolical’: Inside the Coronavirus That Outsmarted Science": Latest in WSJ Series

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Another good installment in the WSJ series, "The COVID Storm" (9/7/20). Here are the opening few paragraphs: The new coronavirus ...
Saturday, September 05, 2020

Sen. Cruz (+ 20) Makes a Move on Women's Health

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Kudos to The Dallas Morning News for this article on the senator's letter urging the head of the FDA to pull Mifeprex (a/k/a mifeprist...

Wall Street Journal's Latest in "The COVID Storm" Series

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The Wall Street Journal  continues its excellent series with two new installments: "How Trump Sowed Covid Supply Chaos. 'Try Gettin...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Testing for the coronavirus and the CDC

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On August 24 the CDC announced new recommendations for testing for the coronavirus. They said that there is no need for testing if someone ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

The COVID Storm: three more Wall Street Journal articles

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The Wall Street Journal continues to excel with its in-depth study of how we got to where we are today, what went right and what went wrong...

". . . it illustrates that we are all connected "

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From the Boston Globe (possible paywall protection): When Biogen held its meeting of the firm's international leaders in a Boston hotel ...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Declining life expectancy in the U.S. and legal determinants of health

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It is well known that average life expectancy in this country declined from 2014-2017, followed by a slight (~1 month) increase in 2018 ( CD...
Monday, August 17, 2020

The COVID Storm: Part 2 of The Wall Street Journal Series on What Went Wrong

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  The second installment in the WSJ's series -- "China’s CDC, Built to Stop Pandemics Like Covid, Stumbled When It Mattered Most...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

New Wall Street Journal Series: The COVID Storm

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The first installment was in today's paper: "A Deadly Coronavirus Was Inevitable. Why Was No One Ready?" The series is off to...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Cruzan and the Right to Die -- SMU Law Review Symposium (Vol. 73, No. 1)

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 I'm happy to report the publication of the SMU Law Review's Symposium, " Cruzan  and the 'Right to Die'" in  Vol....

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Can we finally put to rest the certifiably false assertions by Trump and Cornyn that children are immune to or not affected by the coronavi...

Ed Yong (Atlantic writer) on KERA-FM's "Think"

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Ed Yong, whose article in the September issue of The Atlantic  I previewed in an earlier post , was recently  interviewed by Krys Boyd on K...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Long-term Health Care Costs for COVID-19

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  Even after the critical-care hurricane passes, we are looking at COVID-19-related thunderstorms for the years ahead.  We are used to think...
Friday, August 07, 2020

Determination of Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria: The World Brain Death Project

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Brain death/death by neurologic criteria (BD/DNC) is described in every jurisdiction in the U.S. as the irreversible cessation of all brain ...