Harm Reduction

While it is evident that nursing home residents [1] are both susceptible to COVID-19 and suffer higher rates of mortality, it has been unclear what exactly the underlying risk factors are.  Certainly, co-morbid conditions, which seem to

During MBA school, one of my favorite courses was about operations, learning how to set up a manufacturing system, bottlenecks, throughput, parallel work lanes, and buffer zones.

The paper is the work of two physicians trained in internal medicine and a health economist, so they are free of bias as well as any practical knowledge about how surgeons operate, literally and figuratively.

"It's a war" Steve Tebbets USDA Commodity Protection and Quality Research Entomologist

The generation of aerosols from patients with COVID-19 has long been a concern in healthcare.

The research involved 26 healthy "occasional cannabis users" [1] in a double-blind study. Each participant acted as their own controls, along with vaping cannabis combinations, and then let loose on the roads for a 100-km ride.

Tomorrow the FDA will consider emergency use approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The report that the agency will be basing its decision upon can be found here.

When it comes to staying at home, what is the most significant driver, our government, or our beliefs? A working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research teases out the different effects of fear and policy in lockdowns.

Lockdowns are nothing more than widespread, complete social distancing. The science here is clear that eliminating direct contacts significantly reduces disease transmission.