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Medical workers in hazmat suit working with laptop computer and micoroscope inside laboratory hospital during coronavirus outbreak

Yes, many died in 2020-21, but hopefully it is a one-shot event. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that life expectancy had dropped sharply in the wake of COVID-19, and the story was picked up by every media outlet.  But it’s not clear to me what this really means. Period lif…

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 When COVID-19 started spreading through nursing homes last spring, the United States had no first-hand experience battling a coronavirus. That’s a fair point but an inadequate explanation for a tragedy in which more than 100,000 nursing home residents and staff to date have died of COVID-related causes. There is plenty of blame to go around…