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Peter Jaworski on The Case for Voluntary Remunerated Plasma Collections

Peter Jaworski makes the case for allowing compensation of plasma donors in the wealthy nations of …

Tools to allocate medical supplies in a crisis: Cramton, Ockenfels, Roth and Wilson in Nature

Publishing a commentary in Nature is a dizzying process for anyone accustomed to the stately dance …

Laws and law enforcement for actions whose illegality is controversial (the case of 'honor killing')

Repugnant transactions and actions are sometimes banned with the full force of the law: consider  e…

Human Challenge Trials for COVID-19 vaccines

Yesterday I blogged about trying to speed up vaccine development and distribution by taking some of…

Should emergency medical supplies go to the highest bidders? (That isn't necessarily what economists think...)

Should prices clear markets for emergency medical supplies? Many economists don't think so: Pri…

What makes a market transaction morally repugnant? by Leuker, Samartzidis, and Hertwig

Here's a new working paper on repugnance, from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development i…

Blood and plasma: a brief history, from 1628

With all my discussion of convalescent plasma for Covid-19 this week*, here's a historical pers…

Convalescent plasma collection and distribution

Efforts to collect and distribute convalescent plasma from recovered Covid-19 patients are ramping …

Surrogacy amidst the corona virus pandemic lockdowns

The coronavirus pandemic isn't only a story about disease, it's also a story about lockdown…

Plasma and plasma products (such as antibodies) are a big business (and the U.S. dominates the international market)

These days I'm thinking about corona virus covid-19 convalescent blood plasma, which I blogged …

Cascades of convalescent plasma for Covid-19, and chains of exchanges, by Kominers, Pathak, Sönmez, and Ünver

Covid-19 convalescent plasma is a new thing in the world, that came into existence only when the fi…

Does the porn industry provide a model for disease testing and contact tracing to end corona virus lockdowns?

The adult film industry--which produces films in which performers engage in sex with one another--h…

Buying and selling blood plasma, with focus on Canada, continued

Peter Jaworski writes: "I had a video with Big Think come out recently where I defend paying f…

Repugnant but legal: can strip shows and payday lenders get Paycheck Protection Program support in the pandemic?

The Washington Post has the story: Strip clubs, payday lenders, lobbyists fight to get emergency fe…

Human Challenge Trials (aka Controlled Human Infection studies) for corona virus vaccines

What do we want?   A vaccine for covid-19. When do we want it?   After clinical trials and peer rev…

Repugnance watch: Hungary moves to roll back legal recognition of transsexuality

The covid-19 pandemic has allowed a consolidation of authoritarian power in Hungary, as also elsewh…

Surrogacy finally becomes legal in New York

Passed last month, to come into effect next year, New York follows most of the rest of the country …

Medical triage for Covid-19: if/when it comes to that, how should it be organized?

So far I haven't heard of any actual medical triage in the U.S. in which life-saving treatment …

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