Category: healthcare
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Top 10 Bio-pharmaceutical Regions in the US by Numbers
The recent COVID-19 pandemic is a testament how incredibly important our biopharmaceutical industry is. It was able to produce vaccines in a record amount of time that saved million of lives. In the past decades, there have been a surge of innovation (and investment) in the biopharmaceutical industry in the US. To put it into…
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Daniel Pink’s “When” is an Illuminating Book Towards High Productivity and Better Living
I stumbled upon the book “When” during a trip to my local library. What a pleasant surprise – I have been pondering about the same question: Why does our mood change somewhat predictably during the day? It turns out there have been tons and tons research on this. But what Dan Pink is great at…
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The Most Factual and Poignant Article on the Failure on COVID Data Collection and Interpretation (So Far)
Today, WSJ published a scathing opinion piece by Dr. Marty Makary from Johns Hopkins University titled “The Flimsy Evidence Behind the CDC’s Push to Vaccinate Children: The agency overcounts Covid hospitalizations and deaths and won’t consider if one shot is sufficient.” This is by far the most compelling article I have ever read so far…
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Why Hasn’t Anybody Done This Graph about COVID-19?
The COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for over 9 months now (I am writing this in mid-December of 2020). One question that I have always been thinking about: Has the risk of dying from COVID changed over time? In particular, have younger people become more risky of dying from contracting the virus? I have…