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Coronavirus, Public Health

One Doctor’s Straight Talk About the Coronavirus

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Emily Landon, the chief infectious disease epidemiologist at University of Chicago Medicine, took the lectern after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), who on Friday afternoon announced that the state would undergo a shelter-in-place order for 2½ weeks starting Saturday evening. “The healthy and optimistic among us will doom the vulnerable,” Landon said. She acknowledged that restrictions like…

Congress, Coronavirus, Legislation, Public Health, Sen. Ron Johnson, WISGOP

The WISGOP Follows a Fool, and Fails Wisconsin

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No state delegation in America has been less receptive to a federal coronavirus relief package than the WISGOP delegation to Washington. Allison Stevens reports Congress clears 2nd major coronavirus package; 3rd in the works: A second major coronavirus package cleared the U.S. Senate Wednesday and is now headed to President Donald Trump for his signature.…

Coronavirus, Economics, Economy, Free Markets, Public Health

Public Policy Responses to the Coronavirus: ‘You have to address the health side’

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Economist Austan Goolsbee offers three scenes, in his words, for addressing the coronavirus pandemic. All three, in the order he presents them, are sound. Most economic schools of thought – and all sound ones across the continuum – would consider something like his suggestions in response to a pandemic. One obvious note – or at…

Coronavirus, Meals, Poverty, Public Health, School District

Assistance Takes Time

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So one hears that an effort toward assistance for children’s breakfast & lunch meals received a lower initial response than some expected. Perhaps, but responses take time – especially in a community where large numbers of children live in poor families that almost certainly do not have conventional broadband access. Initial responses are not indicative…