The point isn't only to provide reassurance to the public, but also to guide policymakers who have to make decisions on things such as opening or closing public schools, libraries, or playgrounds.
"We're not going to be looking back," said House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn.
"3 to 7 days after a stay-at-home order is enacted, fevers in that community start to drop."
The Reason Roundtable podcast discusses.
Preserving consumer choice allows stores and shoppers to respond nimbly to uncertain risks.
Putting people who dislike and distrust the government in charge of the government is a risky business, and we are paying the price for it now.
The group's petition "would dangerously curtail the freedom of the press embodied in the First Amendment."
Surgeon General Jerome Adams wants us to believe the CDC realized the danger posed by asymptomatic carriers only last week.
A pandemic becomes an excuse for treating people as playing pieces in a game.
A global pandemic has done what 30 years of internet manifestoes never accomplished: a mass migration into our screens.
A misleading statistic has made the rounds. But it’s based on a misreading of a government report that says no such thing.
The problems with the federal response to COVID-19 go far beyond Donald Trump and deep into bureaucratic inertia.
Plus: shutdown suits, the pantry police, and more...
Students who would have graduated this spring can start practicing medicine immediately.
The election committees of both parties use the same language to attack Rep. Justin Amash (I–Mich.).
If law students can run a moot court tournament through video conference, I'd think appellate courts can too.
A new study in Lancet Infectious Diseases makes a somewhat lower estimate
Pending minimum service rules would require airlines to keep operating a certain number of flights, regardless of how little demand there is for air travel.
Immigrants want to escape possible COVID-19 death trap, most having committed no violent crime.
Health care workers will now be allowed to use the Chinese-certified KN95 masks, which are equivalent to the N95 masks that are in short supply.
Early and wide testing helps curtail the epidemic while casting light on the prevalence and lethality of the virus.
Q&A with Duke's Michael C. Munger, who also believes that big cities will see rationing and that higher education will never be the same.
The president also cannot reopen the country whenever he pleases.
Confusing travel distance with actual human mingling is no way to create smart policy.
It's authoritarian—and unnecessary.
The Duke economist and political scientist discusses the response to COVID-19, the coming recession, and the end of higher ed as we know it.
The agency has hampered widespread COVID-19 testing and the production of both protective gear and hand sanitizer.
"We are far more resilient than we give each other credit for."
Plus: Robert Kraft flies supplies to Boston from China, Laredo fines people for going without masks, and more...
Most serious approaches to the crisis, however, are decidedly libertarian. They involve reducing regulations that keep industries from responding rapidly in an emergency situation.
Why not let recovered coronavirus patients out of lockdown?
Hungary's Viktor Orbán consolidates power, Harvard's Adrian Vermeule fantasizes about wielding it, and many of those who oppose authoritarian conservativism beg Donald Trump to close the country down.
Stores seem full now, but both illness and legal barriers could interfere with the economy of food production and distribution.
Before this, the wait period was a year.
Preliminary research suggests that commonly used procedures frequently fail to detect the virus.
Anyone who wants to restrict free speech should contemplate what it would be like if your enemy gets to choose what gets said.
The ACLU is also suing Washington, D.C. jails.
Rules designed to keep alcohol safe for children are slowing down production of a product that’s in short supply.
The Club for Growth prides itself on holding lawmakers accountable "by publicizing their voting record." Except, well…not right now.
Jerome Adams clung to older, faulty narratives in the crucial early days of the coronavirus outbreak.
Plus: The feds are still targeting Juul, Call of Duty wins First Amendment lawsuit, and more...
Restrictions on takeout cocktails, telemedicine, hand sanitizer, and plastic bags are among the rules being chucked aside in a crisis.
Keeping up maximum pressure is a dangerous distraction for the United States and catastrophic for the Iranian people.
Many regulations serve little to no public purpose.
Government-mandated unemployment is "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to "sit on the couch and watch TV," says the wealthy star of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
First, they didn't have grocery permits. Now they are not allowed to take any walk-ins.
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