Some Officials Want To Keep Mandating Masks, Despite the CDC Guidance
Want to keep wearing a mask yourself? That's fine. Want to force fully vaccinated people to join you? The science doesn't support that.
Want to keep wearing a mask yourself? That's fine. Want to force fully vaccinated people to join you? The science doesn't support that.
During a pandemic, as always, life is about balancing risks, not eliminating them.
The CDC's recommendations have never been purely a matter of science.
There are many other people who deserve such mercy.
If hosting a religious service or a performance that includes food service, theaters can open to 50 percent capacity. But plays and other performances are still capped at 33 percent.
New CDC guidelines strengthen the already compelling case for doing so.
A letter in the prestigious journal Science calls for a full investigation.
Local officials should end most pandemic restrictions immediately.
Suspicions about a lab leak will continue so long as Chinese officials keep acting like they have something to hide.
California's embattled governor wants to spend $8 billion of the state's surprise budget surplus on individual payments to state residents.
The economic aid package paid people not to work. So it's no surprise that many aren't working.
Rochelle Walensky's gloss is puzzling in light of the evidence presented in the systematic review on which she relied.
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It's less dumb than it sounds.
Most would still refuse a hug, according to a New York Times survey.
Circumstantial evidence that it may have is mounting.
"I don't understand why money is leaving my pocket and going into the pocket of somebody who is wealthy."
The flawed documents seem destined to be part of life long after the reason for their existence is gone.
Jobs data casts doubt on the idea that the COVID-19 pandemic is uniquely setting women back.
The agency's disease advice is seen as increasingly irrelevant by more Americans.
Shocker: When you keep schools closed, lie about them being death mills, then call opening advocates white supremacists, parents may not be in a hurry to send their kids back to part-time Zoom-in-a-room.
A bride-to-be says the regulation is an irrational and unconstitutional restriction on her special day.
The administration is modeling behavior that is even more risk-averse than what the CDC recommends.
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Doing so will protect constitutional rights, reduce vaccine hesitancy, and increase liberty - all at once.
Good intentions, bad results.
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This ruling has some distinctive elements, and may have a broader impact than previous decisions.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claims to be enforcing a law that prohibits "false or misleading representations."
"Masking kids at camp outdoors is simply virtue signaling."
Amid message confusion, report shows teachers union fingerprints on the CDC's school reopening guidance.
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Two governors defined by their differing approaches to COVID-19 are both moving in the same direction.
The emphasis on a goal that may be impossible to reach reduces the incentive to get vaccinated.
Emergency measures to deal with the crisis are likely to linger long after COVID-19 is gone.
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Washington, D.C., policy makers are pairing their very gradual reopening with a series of complicated, confusing, and unworkable regulations.
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This is the same agency that cost thousands of lives with its botched vaccine rollout.