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Skinner Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Health Economics

July 09, 2021 by Bill Platt

The Fuchs award cited the economics professor's work to improve health care systems.

Jon than Skinner research professor of economics and a professor at the Geisel School of Medicine, has received the Victor Fuchs Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Health Economics from the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE).

"This is the highest honor one can achieve in the health economics field," says Nina Pavcnik, the Niehaus Family Professor in International Studies.

The real death toll from the pandemic in America may already be 300,000

Deaths from all causes — not just Covid-19 — are up since the pandemic started, a CDC report found.

By Julia Belluz@juliaoftoronto Oct 21, 2020, 10:10am EDT

The official Covid-19 mortality figures might be dramatically underestimating the real deathtoll of the pandemic in the US, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

From late January to early October, nearly 300,000 “excess deaths” occurred in America, the report authors estimate. That’s about a third more than the 216,025 coronavirus deaths the US reported in the same period.