Masks Are a Tool, Not a Panacea
They help keep the disease from spreading, but they won't single-handedly keep the COVID-19 numbers from going up.
They help keep the disease from spreading, but they won't single-handedly keep the COVID-19 numbers from going up.
The president managed to generate controversy, however, with remarks about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
No, we don’t need someone to “take command of the national supply chain for essential equipment, medications, and protective gear.”
Just 0.18 percent of randomly tested teachers and students have been positive for COVID-19. So why the hell would you close the schools?
When "fundamental rights are restricted" during an emergency, he says, the courts "cannot close their eyes."
Deutsche Bank has proposed a 5 percent income tax on people working from home, the revenue from which could be spent supplementing the lost wages of service workers.
So far the president-elect's "expectation" is off by a factor of more than three, which does not bode well for his approach to the pandemic.
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New York will limit private, in-home gatherings to just 10 people.
Trump claimed the power to issue a national eviction moratorium during COVID. Could that pave the way for the mask mandates Biden clearly wants?
Also, maybe not! Previewing divided government and incoming vaccines on the Reason Roundtable podcast.
Unfortunately, COVID, COVID, COVID this winter is unlikely to be Fake News.
And there looks to be more good vaccine news coming.
Despite fears that a pandemic-ravaged economy would force renters from their homes in droves, evictions were down nationwide at the end of summer.
There are at least 11 trillion reasons to be very scared about what comes next.
It's the world of the present, not the controversies of the past, that motivated voters.
Flexible education crafted to meet family needs is destined to prevail over failing government schools.
Schools don’t seem to spread the coronavirus much at all.
Families are leaving traditional schools in record numbers for pods, homeschooling, charters, and more.
It's too bad that Trump has discouraged them.
The president's COVID-19 adviser is not always right, but at least he is attempting to describe reality.
"This timeline will need to be adjusted."
Food industry workers and wonks make their case for agricultural and food industry reforms.
California's COVID-19 business closures have turned Ghost Golf into a shadow of its former self. Its owner is now suing the governor for the right to reopen.
Peaks and valleys, a fall peak, or a slow burn?
Even after adjusting for age and comorbidities, researchers in New York and England found large improvements in patient survival.
Low-income kids were most likely to get online-only instruction, according to Pew.
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America's meat supply has been hammered by COVID-19 outbreaks at many of the nation's largest meat processing plants, but Congress can solve this by reducing onerous regulations.
Why people continue to trust government officials is a mystery.
That claim is wildly implausible and contradicted by the president's suggestion that COVID-19 was never much of a threat.
Who could have predicted that intolerable rules won’t be tolerated?
Restaurants in five counties are threatening legal action.
A mounting number of lawsuits are challenging the Trump administration's claim that it can adopt any policy it deems reasonably necessary to combat the pandemic.
COVID-19 Cases are increasing faster than is testing, and that's not "fake news."
The Reason Roundtable war-games the domestic policies of the likeliest next administration.
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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on schooling during COVID-19, the future of higher ed, and why her cabinet department probably shouldn't exist at all
Turns out some of the federal government's PPP loans ended up going to people who didn't need them quite as badly.