Two Reasons the Worst-Case Scenarios for COVID-19 Seem Unrealistic
The mortality rate is much lower than the official numbers suggest, and adaptive behavior affects the transmission rate.
The mortality rate is much lower than the official numbers suggest, and adaptive behavior affects the transmission rate.
Private-sector efforts to fill the testing vacuum run afoul of bureaucracy.
What's dangerous is not trusting people with the truth.
Jail officials urge more and faster releases as the virus spreads between staff and inmates.
The government botched the early response to coronavirus, so why expect it to grow in competence now?
When this is all over, don’t expect politicians to lose their taste for ordering us around.
Lawmakers are still seeking a compromise.
Congress should loudly and unanimously reject this insanity.
The coronavirus outbreak offers another view of the limits of central planning.
Especially during a pandemic, Americans need access to healthy food.
Under current Supreme Court precedent, the answer is almost always going to be "no." But some compensation may be morally imperative, even if not legally required.
Much-maligned single-use plastics make a comeback in a newly germaphobic nation.
New York's governor insists his edict "mandating that 100% of the workforce must stay home" is "not a shelter-in-place order."
Their complaints shut down an important pandemic-fighting tool. Fortunately, a substitute plan has been found.
Make this incredible service to America permanently legal.
The big unknown is how many people are infected but aren't counted in the official numbers because their symptoms are mild or nonexistent.
A big contraction was followed by a bustling aftermath—but with notable negative long-term effects as well.
If this is to respond to a temporary crisis, why do these powers last for two years?
The spread of COVID-19 is making once unthinkably extreme policies seem like the least bad option.
Religious liberty, public health, and the police powers of the states
The extension allows some individuals and businesses to keep more of their money for three extra months at a time when millions of Americans are likely to be out of work and struggling to make ends meet.
Thought during an epidemic from a defender of freedom
If you really want politicians to do something helpful, ask them to stop "leading" and to get out of the way.
Tucker Carlson: "There is no greater moral crime than betraying your country in a time of crisis, and that appears to be what happened."
The new plan seeks to help an economy decimated by the coronavirus.
The coronavirus is going to crater tax revenues and hike spending. And the Congressional Budget Office says the deficit was going to exceed $1 trillion even before all that.
Vladimir Putin insists he has control of the situation. Don't believe him.
Public transit was already in decline before the COVID-19 outbreak. Now transit agencies are teetering on the brink of collapse.
FDA is reportedly cutting red tape to give expanded access to COVID-19 patients.
The coronavirus upends business as usual at SCOTUS.
The "panic" Andrew Cuomo has in mind is a rational response to the threat of an economically ruinous government overreaction.
GM’s CEO is offering to help. She shouldn't wait for the feds to figure out what to do.
How broken bureaucracy and poor political leadership combined to botch the rollout of COVID-19 testing
Overcrowded jails are ill-prepared for a coronavirus outbreak.
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Examples abound of the generosity and sense of community of the American people.
The NYU Law professor thinks we're in for a mess of bad epidemiology, ineffective stimulus, and misguided quarantines.
The churn of new emergency regulatory waivers and restrictions is causing confusion for American manufacturers and freight haulers.
A close look at the new study from Imperial College which models worst-case scenarios and makes the case for social distancing.
Politicians seem to be proceeding on the dangerous assumption that cost-effectiveness does not matter.
The worst-case scenarios projecting millions of deaths don't take into account adaptive behaviors.
The package seeks to curb the economic chaos caused by COVID-19.
Police departments turn to summons instead of processing people into cells—a change they should keep after this is all over.
Weighing the state and local response to COVID-19