(2021-11-24) ZviM Paxlovid Remains Illegal 11/24 Update

Zvi Mowshowitz: Paxlovid Remains Illegal: 11/24 Update. What Alex Tabarrok called The Paxlovid Paradox is getting noticed by the people who notice such things, and completely ignored by everyone else. I’ve split off this week’s Paxlovid update to help make the situation easier to notice, and easier to remember and reference later, lest we forget.

Scott Alexander is the latest to point out that this is murderous madness (this is not Scott’s language

Scott Alexander notes that the current prediction market median approval date is January 1, 2022

My guess is that this the current median estimate is somewhat too pessimistic.

He goes through and quickly destroys many plausible reasons why this delay would make sense.

How bad is this delay? How many people are going to needlessly die?

This is a system of anti-ethics, the reverse of actual ethics


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