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Virus Crisis Economic FAQ
Arnold Kling1. Why are we so concerned about this virus, which so far (as of mid-March) has killed many fewer people than an ordinary flu?The key to the answer lies in the words “so far.” The virus seems to spread at a phenomenal rate, with cases doubling more than once a week. If the number of deaths were to double once a week, then starting from about 200 deaths on March 15, by the end of May the total would be 200,000 deaths, which is about ten times the number that we get from ordinary flu.The Imperial College papermade an extrapolation that warned of the possibility hundreds of thousands of deaths if social distan...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 23, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Arnold Kling Source Type: blogs

COVID-19 Update: A Message From Concerned Physicians
This article originally appeared on the HJLuks site here. The post COVID-19 Update: A Message From Concerned Physicians appeared first on The Health Care Blog.
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Physicians Bryan Vartabedian Carrie Diulus coronavirus Eric Levi Ethan Weiss Howard Luks Joel Topf Nancy Yen Shipley Pandemic Source Type: blogs

The Stun Setting
Lately I’ve been feeling like we’re living through a particular Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. No, not “Contagion” – that’s about a computer virus. Not “Thine Own Self” either, but that’s a good guess. I’m thinking of “The Ensigns of Command.” That’s the episode where Data, the android character, must convince a bunch of stubborn colonists that they need to immediately pack up and leave the colony they worked so hard to build. The human colonists must leave because thanks to a treaty, the planet where they’ve built their co...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - March 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Emotions Health Values Source Type: blogs

This Will Not Be Over Quickly
Italy provides a glimpse of what’s coming soon to the rest of Europe, the USA, and other parts of the world. Here’s what’s happening in the Italian city of Parma: The intensive care units are now all full. Hospital wards are spilling out into corridors, tents, car parks, gardens and commercial warehouses. We are hearing words – like “triage” – which are usually associated with warfare. Medics and nurses are having to make decisions on which patients to prioritise. Some doctors have died, and others have compared the numbers of admissions to dealing with “an earthquake every day”.Source: ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - March 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Lifestyle Source Type: blogs

Quarantine Quandaries: How to Beat the Hum Drum of Isolation
In recent months we have been introduced to COVID-19, a virus, which has thousands of people across the globe, exposed with symptoms and many others fearing exposure and risk. There are widespread recommendations for social distancing, with thousands in quarantine and considerably more being advised to work from home. For many industries this reflects a drastic change of pace, with students remotely learning, and full business having difficulty functioning at their usual capacity. This reflects a challenge in how we can stay sane, now finding ourselves in increased isolation, in a less sane world. Many people find it hard ...
Source: World of Psychology - March 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jessica Koblenz, PsyD Tags: Communication Health-related Self-Help anxiety coronavirus COVID-19 social distancing Social Isolation Source Type: blogs

We Need to Align With What ’ s Coming Next
We’ve seen a lot of changes in the world this week due to the coronavirus situation. I think what many people don’t yet realize is that the rate of change isn’t going to be linear. It’s going to accelerate. Despite all the changes you’ve seen this week, next week’s changes will be bigger still… and the changes coming the week after that will be even bigger. So if your head is spinning now, it will spin twice as hard next week. In the USA I see people making some adaptations, but they seem to be mentally making minimalist ones. By this I mean that they’re taking in what ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - March 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Values Source Type: blogs

There Is No Time for That
By ROMAN ZAMISHKA, MPA Some of the most important engineering lessons were demonstrated on the tank battlefields of World War II when German Tigers faced off against Soviet T-34s. The Tiger tank was a technical masterpiece of for its time with many features that did not appear in allied tanks until after the war. Despite its much heavier armor it was able to match the speed of lighter enemy tanks and keep up with its own light tank scouts. The armor featured almost artisanally welded interlocking plates. The ammunition featured innovative electric trigger primers and high penetration tungsten shells. The double diff...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: CORVID-19 Health Policy coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic Roman Zamishka Source Type: blogs

How to Frame the Coronavirus
At the individual level, you have many options for how to frame the coronavirus situation. You could continue to see it as some meaningless objective event, remaining detached from assigning any meaning to it. It just is. A virus is simply doing what a virus does. And people are reacting to it as people do. It has no special personal meaning for you. Or you could see it as some kind of spiritual sign with a very personal meaning for you. Or you could see it as a subjective reality event within your simulation, in which case it could have personal meaning as a form of communication from the simulator. Within that s...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Health Source Type: blogs

Birds, Pigs and Silent VIP ’s
It has become a tragic fact that every year the flu season brings an immense burden on health care services and now has dozens of subtypes cataloged, from ‘swine flu’ to ‘bird flu’ to ‘Asian flu’ and beyond. Typically, between late Fall and early Spring, over the last ten years, the United States alone has suffered hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and tens of thousands of deaths across all ages [1]. But shortly after the turn of the century the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1918 to 1920 was different in the extreme, and like every disease or virus did not discriminate on age, gender, race, even specie...
Source: GIDEON blog - March 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: General Source Type: blogs

Less ‐​Costly Ways to Reduce the Harm of COVID-19 Without Travel‐​and‐​Immigration‐​Bans
ConclusionA mix of the policy options above, from Pigovian taxes and subsidies to small changes in property rights as well as reducing ignorance and other regulatory changes at airports, could have a large effect in reducing the spread of COVID-19 at a very low cost. Extreme options like travel ‐​and‐​immigration‐​bans might be appropriate if the expected cost of COVID-19 climbs beyond a certain point, but less ‐​costly policies should be tried first. In other words, let’s have TSA agents squirt hand sanitizer into the hands of all travelers before closing the airports.
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 28, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs

Reasons to chill and reasons not to chill
Okay, I ' m not an epidemiologist or a virologist. But I do know something about those subjects, I ' m a public health professor, and I am an expert in clinical communication and risk communication. So I ' m going to offer some observations that I hope will help people keep this public health scare in proper perspective and maybe be of practical use.There are two important parameters we need to understand the risk caused by any communicable disease. I ' m going to broadly say transmissibility, and the probability that exposure will lead to serious disease.We often see transmissibility represented as a single number, called...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 26, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Buone Feste! Happy Holidays!
Well, this year I have to admit that I don’t have much in the way of a festive spirit, which is very unusual for me. I have always loved the Xmas holidays, decorating the house, making cookies, etc. Not this year. There are several reasons why I’ve been down and out about the holidays. One is that Stefano and I were supposed to be in Prague right now, lovely Prague with its glittering streets and Xmas markets…but instead we’re still here, in Florence. We had to cancel our trip to Prague because I came down with a rather nasty case of the flu (high fever, etc.) on the eve of our departure. Of course,...
Source: Margaret's Corner - December 24, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Source Type: blogs

Exceptional longevity: why some people live to be more than 100-year old
Interventions that promote longevity, remembered by mnemonic:DEEP purple - “eat colorful plant foods:Dietary modification,Exercise, activeEngagement,Purposeful living (click here toenlarge the image).Based on a Mayo Clinic Proceedings article (https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(18)30792-4/):Exceptional Human Longevity: the oldest old have an extreme phenotype of delayed onset of age-related diseases and/or resistance to lethal illnesses occurring earlier in life.Centenarians have delayed onset of chronic diseasesDuring the span of human history the likelihood of living from birth to age 100 rose fro...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - December 25, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Lifestyle Longevity Mayo Clinic Source Type: blogs

Digital Health Makes You A Superhero!
Superman, Spiderman, the Flash, the Avengers, Green Arrow, Catwoman. Idolized superheroes are able to fly, jump from one roof to another beating up the bad guys. Although they all have their unique characteristics and superpowers, one thing is common. They all use their abilities to the fullest. Digital health offers you the same. You can become a real superhero if you proactively harness the power of technology for your health. Technology has the potential to transform how we think about our health The current medical system in most countries works as a reactive setting. The patient goes to the doctor with existing sympt...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 8, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Cyborgization Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers artificial intelligence comics digital digital health Healthcare Innovation marvel marvel universe superhero superpower technology Source Type: blogs

H1N1 influenza in Aosta, Italy
I am off to Italy for a short break later this year, lucky me, so am trying to resuscitate my holiday Italian.   And so I have downloaded the Android app for La Stampa (I tried two others but the full text wasn't free to read - cheapskate!).  And I spotted this piece about cases of H1N1 influenza in Aosta, northern Italy.Other Italian sources (like ANSA) are reporting the same, but I can't find anything in English anywhere, or anything in Dutch or French.It seems that one man has died, although he may have been in hospital with other conditions (the sentence with "pluripatologie", but not sure), and a woman ...
Source: Browsing - January 17, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: influenza Source Type: blogs