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COVID's impact on Medicare and Social Security

. . . and so it begins. Attributed to how we handled the pandemic or not, cuts to Medicare are inevitable. According to its trustees, we...

COVID to Erode Medicare Benefits

Between congressional and federal reserve actions we have spent more dollars fighting COVID-19 than it would have taken to balance the...

People are Vaccine Rational

As a researcher, I've come to the view that people are more rational than many give them credit for. https://bit.ly/3ggfcbc This recent...

The CDC Missed an Opportunity in Michigan

This is addendum to a prior post. The CDC projected over a month ago that hospitalizations would rise in Michigan faster than any other...

Michigan in the Crosshairs

Any way you look at it, Michigan's new cases are significantly greater than any other state's even when trying to adjust for age,...

Vaccine Strategy is Overly Simplistic

The US' vaccine strategy is overly simplistic, inflexible, and is costing lives and needlessly extending the duration of the pandemic....

The CDC's COVID Model is Systematically Underestimating Future Deaths

Introduction I don't recall another time of my life when computer models have occupied so much of the national conversation. The model we...

What a Digital Transformation Really is.

I read a lot about Digital Transformations but haven't seen a definition that really seems to fit the bill. So here's mine. In the...

Disney Shouldn't Ostracize Star Wars Fans

The Rise of Skywalker, the capstone to the current Star Wars trilogy will be released later this week. The WSJ reports Disney is going to...

Amazon's Quintuple Threat to Brands

Much is being written (and deservedly so) about the threat Amazon poses to retailers. It's now the #2 US retailer (worldwide sales)...