“Living” with Covid-19 has been talked about since the pandemic first began.
This so-called “endemic” phase would see Covid-19 look more like influenza, with regular vaccine campaigns and a focus on primary care. Not eradicated, but managed trib.al/2ZghWvM
🇫🇷Paris is swarming once again with workers
😷Masks are dangling from wrists rather than noses
🎶Nightclubs are back open
It’s becoming clear that living with Covid will remain an elusive goal without a renewed boost to pandemic management trib.al/2ZghWvM
The reopening of Europe’s major economies is starting to hit a speed bump as cases rebound. Hospitalizations are on the rise in:
🇪🇸📈 Spain
🇫🇷📈 France
The more contagious delta variant is ripping through the continent trib.al/2ZghWvM
The speed of the variant’s spread matters.
The more urgent question for a Europe desperate to live with Covid has to be how to improve vaccine take-up, not which restrictions people should pick and choose trib.al/2ZghWvM
France’s top vaccine official said the speed of the delta variant’s spread would require vaccinating 90% of adults in France, depending on the efficacy rates of jabs.
Apply that to the EU as a whole and you have 150 million more adults in need of a jab trib.al/2ZghWvM
The rich world begins to talk about booster shots, third doses and more ambitious vaccine coverage
But the goal of living with Covid has to address the huge disparity with low-income countries, where only 1% of people have been given at least one dose trib.al/2ZghWvM
Presenting Covid management as a purely domestic matter ignores the fact that Covid variants thrive in places where vaccine coverage is low.
Europe has a role to play in improving industrial production of vaccines trib.al/2ZghWvM
1⃣Health-care systems need better-paid staff and more primary care resources
2⃣Tourism-dependent countries might have to change course given two years of sub-par international travel flows
3⃣More post-Covid investment will be needed to fund the recovery trib.al/2ZghWvM
Living with Covid should be seen as a goal at the end of a marathon rather than a sprint.
Lifting restrictions needs to be a carefully-calibrated response to data, accompanied by a ramp-up in jabs.
Freedom Day will come — but it’s not here yet trib.al/2ZghWvM
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By Tuesday, two of the Earth’s wealthiest individuals will have flown into space.
🚀 Richard Branson has already been on July 11 aboard a Virgin Galactic spaceship
🚀 Jeff Bezos’s rocket trip with Blue Origin is on Tuesday trib.al/6oESsn5
It’s taken a couple of decades for both men to realize their ambition of going into space: Blue Origin was founded in 2000 and Virgin Galactic four years later trib.al/6oESsn5
Critics will say that they could have devoted their time and money toward more worthy terrestrial endeavors (and paying more tax).
Hopefully seeing Earth’s majestic curvature inspires better care of this planet trib.al/6oESsn5
As someone who has spent decades thinking about money – saving it, investing it and spending it – @ritholtz has come to recognize several fundamental financial truths.
Luckily for you, he’s willing to share them: trib.al/cbCJdBt
Investing is both simple and hard: The basic premise behind successful investing is easily understood: “Invest for the long term, be diversified, watch your costs and let compounding work its magic.”
Not least, the value of fresh air. Better ventilation in workplaces, gathering spaces and other public buildings should be a post-Covid priority trib.al/r3TTvqC
Schools, offices and other indoor spaces need better ventilation in order to minimize the harm from:
🦠New coronaviruses
🦠Cold and flu viruses
🦠Every other sort of airborne pathogen trib.al/r3TTvqC
Covid calls for rethinking the way indoor air is controlled.
✅New guidance on safer ventilation in schools is urgent
✅State and local building codes should also be revised
✅Effective ventilation, which often requires more energy, can't be ignored twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Since the early 1990s, the very concept of inflation has ceased to be a driving force in politics or the economy.
That’s over. Whichever way you look at it, official U.S. data suggest inflation is the highest in 30 years, and rising trib.al/cgjfeym
June’s consumer price index is 5.4%, the highest in 30 years barring one month in 2008.
🚫🍲⛽️ Excluding food and fuel: 4.5% — its highest in three decades
🚫🏡🚗 Excluding shelter and used cars: 3.6% — still far higher than it’s been since 1993 trib.al/cgjfeym
Yet while it’s obvious the U.S. is currently battling inflation, it isn’t clear that it’ll last, and the market seems unconcerned.
The bond market’s best estimate of the average inflation rate for the next decade remains as low as 2.38% trib.al/cgjfeym
You don’t need to drive far from home to see lawn signs calling to “Unmask Our Kids."
This fall, schools will be open across the country. Some districts are requiring masks, some aren’t. Which side of the debate is right? trib.al/bRGAPoW
Although we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the harm done by Covid-19, we’ve done little to assess the harm that masks can do.
A recent letter in JAMA raised awareness about a crucial issue: Our kids are breathing air that’s full of carbon dioxide trib.al/bRGAPoW
Initially, the argument for masks was that they kept the wearer from infecting others. Nowadays evidence of the benefits is plentiful.
What the JAMA letter argues is that in considering whether to mask schoolchildren, we must weigh the benefits and risks trib.al/bRGAPoW