According to a recently published study, Americans are reporting three times more depressive symptoms than before the epidemic. Jama. Why it’s important: The downstream effects of coronavirus on our health and especially our mental health are getting worse. Between the lines: The same people who are heavily armed with the …
Read More »Lesson 9 of the coronavirus epidemic: nimble testing, rapid vaccines, racial inequality
At some point, this will happen again. There will be another new virus and another epidemic. And while each epidemic is different, there are some universal, tangible things we can try to do in a hurricane environment better than these hurricanes. Big picture: The USA should do nine things here …
Read More »Break down the Fed’s historic inflationary change
Today is a truly historic day in Fed history – one that will have a transformative effect on US monetary policy for the foreseeable future. Read the news: For decades, the main task of central banks was to keep inflation down. The Fed has now effectively changed that policy, to …
Read More »Poll: Americans want health care workers, elderly first get coronavirus vaccine
If the US is the first country to develop a coronavirus vaccine, most Americans do not want to share it immediately with the rest of the world – but they’s OK to put high-risk people on the front lines within the US to put, according to a new Harris interview …
Read More »Leaving New York City
Suddenly, the city that never sleeps begins to sleep strangely. Apartment layouts are at a record high, more than 1,200 restaurants are closed, and Wall Street bigwigs are doing their job out of Greenwich or the Hamptons. Why it matters: New York City is a success story in defeating COVID-19, …
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