Sean Brocklebank
@seanbrocklebank
Economist at @EdinburghUni.
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https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/sean-brocklebank 09-08-2010 20:20:14
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In his new piece for The Fitzwilliam, the excellent Peter McLaughlin does a deep dive on Ireland's proposed new organ donation law, and argues that it replicates just about all of the problems of existing systems (link below)
Great interview with Moderna’s CEO about the COVID vaccine and the RNA platform it’s built on. I was astounded that they not only developed the vaccine in two days, but two separate teams developed the identical vaccine separately over the same two days. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bio…
Came across this Our World in Data graph in a student project I just read. Let's hope that trendline stays down for the count.
There is a very real possibility of Britain largely eliminating the fatality risk of the virus by early spring.
Harry Lambert 🌻 on how Covid-19 vaccines could rapidly reduce the UK’s death rate: newstatesman.com/science-tech/c…