Amitabh Chandra
@amitabhchandra2
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Economist and Professor at HBS and HKS @Harvard. Tweets about food, dogs, piano, affogatos, India, and occasionally, health care.
Harvard University
Joined January 2013
RT @bostonjonas: The controversial approval of a new $56,000-a-year #Alzheimers drug against the recommendation of an advisory committee of….
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Millennials have ruined everything, everywhere.
cooking.nytimes.com
This recipe is a vegetarian riff on butter chicken, or murgh makhani, a classic Indian dish in which chicken simmers in a rich, dairy-laden tomato sauce that’s seasoned with heady spices like...
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RT @nberpubs: While FDA review is often described as increasing costs and perhaps slowing flow of new products, by certifying quality, this….
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RT @Mark_Meiselbach: I thought health economics deserved its own. let me know what I missed! No shade meant for any of these papers, of c….
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RT @dmgorenstein: A quick thread on our new @tradeoffspod episode out today about the HIV prevention pill PrEP. It’s a story of the best a….
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After nearly a decade of sky-high prices, new generics have sent the price of the HIV prevention drug PrEP plummeting.
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RT @megtirrell: FDA should have led J&J #covid19 vaccine decision-making, former commissioner @ScottGottliebMD writes in @WSJ. “Putting the….
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Clear lines of authority would make it easier to resolve the Johnson & Johnson complications.
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"Imagine if AstraZeneca and Merck were the only ones who had taken up the vaccine challenge. We’d be screwed.”. @DhruvKhullar dazzles in @NewYorker .
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When the next virus strikes, we’ll look back on this moment as an opportunity that we either seized or squandered.
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RT @nicholas_bagley: “When it comes to something like vaccines, you don’t want the best deal,” he said. “You don’t want to pay the minimum….
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When the next virus strikes, we’ll look back on this moment as an opportunity that we either seized or squandered.
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RT @tradeoffspod: 3. In @JAMA_current, @jgrischkan @AriBFriedman and @amitabhchandra2 suggest the best way to fix medical education is to c….
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This Viewpoint challenges US hospital claims that government funding to train physicians is necessary to offset costs, maintain physician supply, and keep costs low for other payers, and proposes...
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RT @Atul_Gawande: The strong Novavax results in UK - 90% overall effectiveness; 96% w original COVID; 86% w #B117 - indicate we will soon g….
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RT @sarahkliff: Hero work from @sangerkatz, who combed through the stimulus bill to explain all the new options for health insurance differ….
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There is more financial assistance for more people seeking coverage. And many people who are already covered can get discounts, too, if they sign up.
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RT @oziadias: These behind-the-scenes vetoes happen without patient consent: current and future cancer patients (ie, many of us) would not….
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RT @Michael_Chernew: @UM_VBID told me that my earlier tweet about the 2021 vbid summit would not get as many likes….
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V-BID SUMMIT 2021 20 Years of Impact & Innovation On March 10, 2021, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first V-BID publication, we assembled an extraordinary roster of national leaders from...
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RT @RFisman: @mattkahn1966 To reprise a relevant comment from Don Rubin on this topic: It's easy to signal mathematical aptitude but hard t….
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Let's also be very cautious though: I would've expected news of this type to be on the front page of @ScienceMagazine or a leading medical journal but it is not.
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We also have excellent evidence that disease stymies development (from the brilliant economist-physician @MarcellaAlsan), so eliminating malaria should unlock massive growth. Marcy's paper:
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(January 2015) - The TseTse fly is unique to Africa and transmits a parasite harmful to humans and lethal to livestock. This paper tests the hypothesis that the TseTse reduced the ability of Africans...
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And while we applaud the effort to get bed-nets to people, it is fundamentally a 2000 year old technology (Cleopatra used bed-nets), that we would never be satisfied with if rich countries had malaria.
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