Newly Recorded COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Are Falling in the U.S.
It's not clear how long those hopeful trends will continue.
It's not clear how long those hopeful trends will continue.
Centralization makes sense only if you ignore differences in local conditions—and trust the feds to make the right choices.
Fortunately, 2020 is nearly at an end. Unfortunately, its events will leave one hell of a mark on the years to come.
The story of why pain relievers took root in Appalachia begins decades before the introduction of OxyContin.
A year into the pandemic, politicians still have not digested the dangers of careless public health measures.
The evidence is limited and mixed, but data from New York, Minnesota, and California suggest that restaurants there account for a small share of infections.
Thanks to poor management and massive rates of incarceration, people are dying both inside and outside prisons.
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The decision says the government failed to present any evidence of virus transmission in restaurants that follow COVID-19 precautions.
The justices emphasized that K-12 schools are currently scheduled to reopen after winter break.
Pandemic chaos is driving families to flee government institutions in search of education that better suits their needs.
Individually and in organized groups, people are pushing back against lockdown orders.
Authoritarian-minded officials have found opportunity in public health fears.
Under punitive federalism, localities refuse dictates from above while state and federal officials retaliate.
The ban is "not a comment on the relative safety of outdoor dining," Mark Ghaly says, but part of the effort to keep people from leaving home.
San Mateo County Health Officer Scott Morrow, who supported last spring's stay-at-home orders, airs his misgivings about reviving that policy.
Courts ignore constitutional guarantees while defendants awaiting trial languish in jail.
Press coverage of the pandemic tends to exaggerate risk and ignore encouraging information.
It is likely to be approved for distribution by the end of the week.
The National Bureau of Economic Research finds that U.S. media coverage of the pandemic is far bleaker than in other countries.
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We must not ignore the suffering that this pandemic and our collective response to it have inflicted on millions of fellow citizens.
Circumstances change and the world may grow more complicated, but authoritarians never vary from their demand for more power over our lives.
The New York Times columnist misconstrues the issues at stake in the challenge to New York's restrictions on houses of worship.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo described his policy as a "fear-driven response," cut by a "hatchet" rather than a "scalpel."
By arbitrarily foreclosing relatively safe social and recreational options, politicians encourage defiance, resentment, and riskier substitutes.
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If governments stand in the way of vaccine production and distribution for the world market, the costs will be high in lives and in wealth.
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It's not like we didn't know that we had a problem.
After violating his own rules, California's governor offers deceitful excuses and announces new restrictions for the little people.
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That makes the disease much deadlier than the seasonal flu but not nearly as deadly as modelers initially assumed.
Before putting testing rules in place, officials should have considered whether the public would be willing and able to comply.
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The case gives SCOTUS another chance to enforce constitutional limits on disease control measures.
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Legal responses to this fall's surge in new cases, like last spring's lockdowns, are frequently illogical and unscientific.
They help keep the disease from spreading, but they won't single-handedly keep the COVID-19 numbers from going up.
When "fundamental rights are restricted" during an emergency, he says, the courts "cannot close their eyes."
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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Trump claimed the power to issue a national eviction moratorium during COVID. Could that pave the way for the mask mandates Biden clearly wants?
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.
The president's COVID-19 adviser is not always right, but at least he is attempting to describe reality.
Peaks and valleys, a fall peak, or a slow burn?