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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Why isn’t information like this provided by IDPH and CDC? Inexcusable.
Illinois was only allocated 3.288 doses in the first shipment. Does it really make sense to advertise a therapy that is not readily available?
Evushield is another mab that received emergency authorization in December. It’s being used for prevention of covid for patients that are immunocompromised that are not expected to produce an immune response from the vaccine. Pretty sure this one isn’t talked about much either because it’s not widely available.