…the pandemic. Note the scale is much larger, given the huge changes wrought by the early lockdowns, and of course the comparative spikes from the data one year later: As…

…a comparative sense only, Omicron has been milder than previous waves, with more than 3x the number of infections at the US’s previous peak one year ago, but 25% fewer…

…peaks simultaneously this past March. But there’s not enough of a history of the comparative data to make any further statements with confidence. Because the CPI measures of rent lag,…

…YoY for better comparative purposes): And manufacturing hours YoY are down by a % typically associated with previous recessions. In the past, a decline of -0.6 hours from the expansion…

…essential workers to dodging taxes by misclassifying workers. Healthcare Unredacted NIH Emails Show Efforts to Rule Out Lab Origin of Covid. (theintercept.com), Jimmy Tobias. Drawing on “comparative analysis of genomic…

…gaming Medicare risk codes and the ways in which comparative “benchmarks” are set for expected costs, MA plans have become by far the most profitable branches of large insurance companies….

…Survey, which reported generally strong numbers, and the Household Survey, which was very weak. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the comparative YoY gains. In the former survey, jobs…

…complete difference in scale: April 2 of 2022 was a comparatively high week. The highest number of deaths were 3,869 during the week of January 7, 2023. The lowest were…

…stock options drop out of the picture, all of the comparisons are positive.  The bottom line is that neither of our two comprehensive comparative data – the QCEW and withholding…

…debating such technicalities. From the beginning of the pandemic through the fall of 2023 (the last period for which we have good comparative data), real wages in both Europe and…