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The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the US federal budget and deficits.
The balance of high-quality evidence does not support ivermectin as a proven treatment for : and rigorous reviews have generally found no clear clinical benefit, and major health bodies recommend agai...
Clinical trials and systematic reviews conducted during and after the COVID-19 pandemic provide limited information about ivermectin’s long-term safety in humans; most randomized trials report short f...
Ivermectin’s rise from an antiparasitic to a politicized COVID remedy was driven by a small set of physician-led advocacy groups, conservative media personalities and social-media influencers, telemed...
Donald Trump presided over continuing expansion that produced modest real GDP growth before COVID‑19 and a dramatic pandemic contraction in 2020, after which recovery was underway by the end of his te...
Washington, D.C.'s homicide totals fell sharply in 2025 — the Metropolitan Police Department reports 127–128 homicides for the year versus 187 in 2024 and 274 in 2023 — a decline that implies most mon...
Across the last decade rose sharply during the shock and then fluctuated with recovery and policy choices: the federal deficit and debt measures jumped sharply—debt held by the public rose by roughly ...
The (ARP), signed March 11, 2021, was a $1.9 trillion package designed primarily to speed the ’ recovery from the health and economic shocks of the by delivering immediate fiscal relief to households,...
Yes — there are documented adverse events from people using veterinary “horse paste” ivermectin instead of prescribed human formulations, including hospitalizations, neurologic events, and at least so...
Public tallies disagree because trackers count different things, but the best-documented, commonly cited figure is that played of golf during his first term, with broader trackers reporting as many as...
Public health agencies in the and international pharmacovigilance systems documented clear upticks in ivermectin exposures, poison‑control calls and adverse‑event reports during the COVID‑19 period wh...
Off‑label and veterinary use of during the COVID‑19 pandemic produced a measurable uptick in reported adverse events and produced clearer “signals,” driven largely by misuse, overdosing and ingestion ...
(GBD) is a 2020 manifesto authored by three academics that urged “focused protection” of the vulnerable while lifting broad COVID-19 restrictions for the young and healthy, and it was published from a...
A string of high-profile studies — including large clinical trials and influential meta-analyses — were retracted or withdrawn after investigators found , data irregularities and possible fraud, under...
The 's mask guidance evolved from early 2020 advice that largely discouraged mask use by healthy members of the public to layered, risk-based recommendations by 2022 that emphasized vaccination status...
in detention by raw totals versus by standardized rates alters the story: absolute counts foreground the human scale and institutional accountability, while death rates per 100,000 detainees reframe r...
Large, well-designed and major regulatory reviews conclude there is no reliable evidence that ivermectin prevents or treats outside clinical trials, while many small, low‑quality studies and activist ...
Surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic documented a clear rise in poison control center reports of human exposures to ivermectin — including veterinary formulations — with U.S. poison center calls ...
Early news coverage, political statements and social-media dynamics converted a scientific question about SARS‑CoV‑2 origins into a politicized public contest, reshaping which hypotheses were treated ...
Austerity — cutting spending, raising taxes, or both — can and often does reduce headline budget deficits, but its economic and social costs are large and context-dependent: in recessions or when mone...
Veterinary formulations of ivermectin differ from human prescription products in concentration, formulation and inactive ingredients, and taking them can produce toxic overdose and serious neurologica...