Federal Spending Rescued Mass Transit During Covid. What Happens Now?
As commuter buses and trains ran nearly empty at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government stepped in with $69.5 billion in relief funds. It was about five…
Word of the Day: Don’t Say “Covid Pandemic.” Say “Covid Syndemic”! | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. The scale of our ongoing, worldwide Covid pandemic is so enormous that it can be hard to imagine it’s part of a larger whole. For…
The Side Effects of Covid Vaccines
Let me start with a disclaimer: The subject of today’s newsletter will make some readers uncomfortable. It makes me a little uncomfortable. The Times has just published an article about…
Covid Vaccine Side Effects: 4 Takeaways From Our Investigation
Soon after their arrival in late December 2020, the Covid-19 vaccines turned the pandemic around and opened a path back to normalcy. They prevented about 14.4 million deaths worldwide, according…
Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?
Even leading experts in vaccine science have run up against disbelief and ambivalence. Dr. Gregory Poland, 68, editor in chief of the journal Vaccine, said that a loud whooshing sound…
More Economic Effects of Our Ongoing Covid Pandemic (with Cognitive Dysfunction and the Labor Market) | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Previously in this series of round-ups, we looked at Covid and global GDP, as well as GDP in various counties; at the effects of interventions,…
Haiti’s Hospitals Survived Cholera and Covid. Gangs Are Closing Them.
Taïna Cenatus, a 29-year-old culinary student in Haiti, lost her balance at school one day this month and toppled over, but it was not until she hit the ground that…
Four Years On, Covid Has Reshaped Life for Many Americans
Jessie Thompson, a 36-year-old mother of two in Chicago, is reminded of the Covid-19 pandemic every day. Sometimes it happens when she picks up her children from day care and…
Four Years on, the Mysteries of Covid Are Unraveling
When the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was an open question: How was it spreading so quickly? How…
The Fourth Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic
Four years ago today, society began to shut down. Shortly after noon Eastern on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid — or “the coronavirus,” then the more…