Coronavirus dashboard for May 20: signs of a peak in BA.2.12.1 in bellwether jurisdictions; is BA.4/BA.5 next? With no significant economic data today, let’s take a look at where the BA.2.12.1 COVID wave is. Nationwide cases (thin line below) have increased about 3.5x from their bottom of roughly 26,700 five weeks ago, to just over […] The post Coronavirus dashboard for May 20 appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
A Woman’s Right to Safe Healthcare Outcomes
In April 2019, “I finished an article entitled A Woman’s Right to Safe Healthcare Outcomes.” I spent six weeks reading about this for a group which asked me to write on it from a male’s perspective. It took me all of that time. I could have doubled the size of the article I wanted to […] The post A Woman’s Right to Safe Healthcare Outcomes appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Reader Mailbag: Playing the Covid-19 Vaccine
Reader Question:Do you think it is too late to invest in the players involved in developing vaccines for Covid-19? If not, is it better to go with the large companies or the smaller upstarts?I think there are two angles here. First, Covid itself. I doubt anyone really knows whether these vaccines will be effective enough to get rid of Covid (for the most part) within a year or two, or if we are dealing with a new virus that is constantly mutating and here to stay, in which case annual Covid shots are probably in our future. Since the experts would probably punt on this question, I will too. It sure seems too early to rule out annual shots that would likely be solid moneymakers … [Read More...]