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One of my favorite conspiracy theorists suggested that the government was exaggerating the number of deaths due to COVID-19. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, COVID deaths for 2020 and 2021 totaled 842,000, and with Omicron the total has continued to climb in 2022. Indeed, at a news conference early in the pandemic,…
For a whole host of pandemic-related reasons, rents dipped in 2020 as millions of Americans lost jobs, stayed home from college, left the cities, or arranged for aging parents to live with them. But the economy has bounced back, and an additional 900,000 households entered the rental market in the first nine months last year…
