{"id":1079,"date":"2020-04-08T22:49:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T05:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2020-04-08T22:49:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T05:49:36","slug":"april-8-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/2020\/04\/08\/april-8-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"April 8, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

The depressing saga of federal seizures of critical medical supplies<\/a> continues.? Take ventilators ordered by a Democratic governor, credit the Republican Senator<\/a> when giving 20% of them back.<\/p>\n

The president has a financial interest<\/a> in the maker of hydroxychloroquine!?? Partisan advocacy for the drug are making it hard to determine<\/a> if it actually helps.<\/p>\n

“If [NYC] had adopted widespread social-distancing measures a week or two earlier… then the estimated death toll from the outbreak might have been reduced by 50 to 80 percent<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The National Academies don’t think the virus will drop off in the summer<\/a>.? Will a warmer planet bring back old pandemics<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The coronavirus is highlighting major racial disparities<\/a> in underlying health.<\/p>\n

Model-projected deaths are now moving in an optimistic direction<\/a>–good!–but that leads to claims of over-reaction and discounting expert opinion.? It’s a failure to understand uncertainty<\/a>.? But social distancing has made the difference<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The AEI has a plan for reopening<\/a> the country–it requires a lot of testing.? Unfortunately South Korea continues to see flare-ups<\/a> as it tries to return to normal.<\/p>\n

At least Business Town<\/a> is<\/a> back<\/a> again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That reflection I mentioned my spouse wrote?? It was read on the floor<\/a> of the House of Representatives!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The depressing saga of federal seizures of critical medical supplies continues.? Take ventilators ordered by a Democratic governor, credit the Republican Senator when giving 20% of them back. The president has a financial interest in the maker of hydroxychloroquine!?? Partisan advocacy for the drug are making it hard to determine if it actually helps. “If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}