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COVID-19 and the infinite lockdown?

  • Posted on April 21, 2020October 1, 2020
  • by Philippe Lemoine

[Note: This is a guest post by @jeuasommenulle, who usually talks mostly about banking on Twitter, but has been tweeting a lot about the reproduction number of COVID-19 lately. He recently told me that he’d been working on a model…

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Intellectual honesty in the time of COVID-19

  • Posted on April 1, 2020April 2, 2020
  • by Philippe Lemoine

In my previous blog post, where I argued that we didn’t really know what was going on, I distinguished between two hypotheses: The conclusion of this discussion is that, unfortunately, it’ not clear that even the data on the number…

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Are we headed toward an unprecedented public health disaster?

  • Posted on March 21, 2020May 4, 2020
  • by Philippe Lemoine

[Note: This is a translation of the post I published in French yesterday. I wrote the translation very quickly, so there may be mistakes here and there, but on the whole it should be okay, although I am by no…

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A comparison between COVID-19 and the seasonal flu with respect to admissions in ICU

  • Posted on March 14, 2020March 14, 2020
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I published a post in French on the coronavirus yesterday that, ironically, went completely viral. I don’t have time to translate the whole thing, and there are already many great resources on the topic available in English, but if you…

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The debate about health care shows why viewpoint diversity is important

  • Posted on June 23, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

As you know, McConnell finally unveiled the Republican health care bill in Senate, which was immediately described as genocide by liberals. (I say that in jest, but I have no doubt that some people will actually say that, if they…

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Why the US health care expenditures are so high (it’s not what you think)

  • Posted on May 18, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I recently discovered this amazing post on Random Critical Analysis, which argues very convincingly that, despite a widespread belief to the contrary, the US doesn’t actually spend significantly more on health care than other developed countries once you take into…

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