Showing posts with label corona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corona. Show all posts
Saturday, June 24, 2023

Challenge trial for Covid in England reveals airborne superspreaders

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 Nature has a news story about a Lancet Microbe paper reporting the challenge trial. See links to and excerpts from both below. Here's...
Monday, March 6, 2023

Reconsideration of covid convalescent plasma

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Recently Statnews reported that Covid convalescent plasma (CCP) may in fact be useful in preventing severe illness, despite the fact that e...
Monday, June 6, 2022

The return of convalescent plasma as a treatment for Covid

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  As evidence accumulates, it appears that convalescent plasma helps some patients with Covid.  Here's an article from Medpage COVID Con...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

The demise of bourbon-scented hand sanitizer

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The Covid pandemic isn't over, but the emergency shortage of hand sanitizer is. Some Companies Will Stop Making Alcohol-Based Hand Sanit...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Challenge trials in Britain and (not) in the U.S.

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 The NY Times has an excellent piece on Covid vaccine challenge trials, and the different traditions (and repugnance) in Britain and the U.S...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Challenge trials for Covid-19 Delta variant

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 Before the development of the first Covid vaccines, there was a good deal of discussion about the appropriateness of testing vaccines with ...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Are incentives for vaccination coercive, exploitative, or otherwise unethical? Persad and Emanuel think not, in JAMA

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  Many jurisdictions and venues are now offering incentives for people to be vaccinated against Covid-19.  It will not surprise the readers ...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

The Economics of Covid: The 31st Jerusalem Advanced School in Economic Theory (June 28-30)

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This year's event doesn't involve travel. (Next year in Jerusalem!) T he 31st Jerusalem Advanced School in Economic Theory: The Econ...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Covid vaccine congestion in France looks familiar

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France is some weeks behind the U.S. in delivering vaccines, but the script will look familiar to Americans. The  Financial Times has the st...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Vaccinating the whole world quickly turns out to be hard

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  As Covid vaccines became available, rich countries that had made early, advanced purchases at high prices had contracts that delivered ava...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Payments for Covid vaccine

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 The NY Times has the story: Pakistan’s Private Vaccine Sales Highlight Rich-Poor Divide.  An inoculation push, plagued with limited supplie...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Vaccine shortages are more about congested supply chains than about patent protection: Alex Tabarrok at MR

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  Alex Tabarrok has a nice post at Marginal Revolution about the actual problems in worldwide vaccine supply, involving congested supply cha...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

The rise and fall of convalescent plasma as a treatment for Covid

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 The NY Times follows the story: The Covid-19 Plasma Boom Is Over. What Did We Learn From It?  The U.S. government invested $800 million in ...
Friday, April 23, 2021

Challenge trial for Covid-19 reinfection, in Britain.

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A second round of (controvesial) challenge trials is being conducted in England, this one designed to assess how susceptible are people to r...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

Congestion in vaccine delivery: uncancelled extra appointments

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 In school choice, the reason universal enrollment systems that give each child one assignment are so desirable is that if children are acce...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Allocating leftover vaccine before it spoils

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 The NY Times has the story: Hunting for a Leftover Vaccine? This Site Will Match You With a Clinic.  More than half a million people have s...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Coordinating vaccine delivery is hard (California/Blue Cross version)

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 The Mercury News has the story: Santa Clara County will not participate in state’s Blue Shield-run vaccine program   by Maggie Angst "...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

Vaccine supply and delivery in Germany: I'm interviewed in Zeit

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 Here's an interview in the German newspaper Zeit, in which I was asked in early February about the vaccine rollout here and there. (Goo...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Anger at vaccine line jumping

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 There is some tension between getting populations vaccinated quickly and ensuring that priorities for who gets vaccinated first are careful...
Friday, February 26, 2021

Vaccine delivery improving, with congestion

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  A statewide vaccine appointment list is a good idea, but it can crash: Massachusetts Vaccination Website Crash: What Went Wrong?   The sta...