New Study Reveals How DEI Training Increases Hostility
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These findings underscore the need for careful consideration and rigorous evaluation of DEI efforts. More concerning, however, is the extent to which DEI culture... Read more.
Lockdowns Were Never Mainstream
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As we celebrate the nomination and eventual confirmation of Dr. Bhattacharya, we will continue to hear “Fringe" describe him. This is nonsense. Lockdowns were... Read more.
Election 2024: Analysis and Predictions
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The goal of this modeling project was to predict the outcome of the 2024 election using public health, demographic, and historical data. The approach relies on predictors... Read more.
Trust in Doctors and Hospitals Plummets
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A new paper in JAMA analyzes survey respondents in the US over the period of time right after the Covid pandemic started in April 2020 and through early 2024. It... Read more.
AAP’s Pediatrics Journal Confirms What We Knew Three Years Ago
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An intriguing aspect to consider about this study is what it doesn’t address. There’s a complete absence of any discussion about how many pediatric hospitalizations... Read more.
Chronic Absenteeism Worse in States That Closed Schools Longer
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This paper is exactly the type of analysis that is crucial to quantifying the effect of Covid Policy response on our children’s education. Unfortunately, it’s... Read more.
Two States, Two Job Markets
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It’s well known that employment has impacts on not just an individual’s economic outlook, but their health as well. The idea that we could have somehow suppressed... Read more.
The Dashed Dreams of Digital Learning
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The results we were promised from increased tech adoption, always available learning content, and a device for every child has turned out to be not much more than... Read more.
School Closures in 2020/21: What really happened?
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At the time of this writing, school closures are still occurring, albeit much rarer than last year. I truly hope we can one day put politics aside and do what’s... Read more.
What the Media Gets Wrong about Hospitals
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The common thread among all of this coverage is that they all focus on the system, rather than the human. There’s this concept called “capacity” that we all... Read more.
Already in 2020, There Were Signs of Increased Non-Covid Mortality
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Second-order effects on mortality were not measured in real time like SARS-COV2 cases. Why? What we measure matters. What we don’t measure might actually just... Read more.
The Myth of the Disease-Ridden Red States
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The entire proposition is just silly. The concept of innate differences in populations is a well established consideration for those who study population health.... Read more.