Health Care

As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States, millions lost their jobs due to government-mandated shutdowns and plummeting demand for certain goods and services.  Tragically, this massive job…

When Governor Cooper, NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Mandy Cohen, and others go before the television cameras to give North Carolinians a COVID-19 update, the Cooper…

Dr. Mandy Cohen, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) secretary, gave a presentation before the NC House Health Committee on June 17. This was the week…

My colleagues Don van der Vaart and Jon Sanders have argued in a series of reports on the “fog of COVID-19 data” that coronavirus statistics are being miscalculated, misconstrued,…

One of the most challenging aspects of the response to COVID-19 is the lack of information known about the virus before it started to spread throughout the world. How is…

Given doubts about the quality of COVID-19 data collection, it’s very useful to know whether a state is witnessing more deaths than usual. All the more so when the…

There has been a lot of chatter about spikes in COVID-19 infections. The North Carolina media is maintaining a somewhat constant reporting of the numbers with very little discussion of…

In part one of this research update series on supply and demand shocks in health care, I used a study from FAIR Health regarding hospital revenue and utilization…

The COVID-19 impact on consumer demand happened rather abruptly in March. Demand for many goods and services plummeted due to voluntary social distancing and mandatory stay-at-home orders. COVID-19 stressed the…

“NC sets new COVID-19 hospitalizations record for the 10th time in June,” warned ABC 11 News yesterday. A tenth record this month means we’ve seen lots of these fear-triggering…