Dr. Vinay Prasad: Stop Trusting the Public Health Establishment
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More than four months after President Joe Biden declared the pandemic to be over, the White House is fighting efforts to lift lingering and nonsensical COVID rules.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concludes the President exceeded the scope of his delegated authority.
Data show Florida and New York had similar death numbers despite vastly different approaches.
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The company's broad definition of "misleading information" and its deference to authority invited censorship by proxy.
College students should be able to use their own judgment on COVID boosters, not be forced into them by learning institutions.
In times of public health crises, government red tape and misguided communication make matters worse.
From the sounds of it, the Air Force's attorneys didn't think too carefully about how to respond to Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) claims.
The president has urged the Chinese government to respect the rights of anti-lockdown demonstrators. He actively encouraged the Canadian government to end the trucker protests.
The ice cream's innovative freezers helped Pfizer keep COVID-19 vaccines stable during transit.
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Blue states may require the vaccine after the CDC recommends it, stripping families of a choice that should be theirs.
Why should low-income children be the only ones still forced to wear masks?
We’re likely to be poorer, distrustful, and less free for years to come.
Behind the scenes, federal officials pressure social media platforms to suppress disfavored speech.
Gov. Jay Inslee says Washington state's COVID-19 emergency will finally come to an end on October 31.
The lesson here: Public health messaging needs to be clear and specific. Oh, and federal bureaucracy sucks, as usual.
But does everyone really need to get boosted?
Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council will force all public school students ages 12 and up to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
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I am one of the relatively few people who think the Court got both cases right.
Good public health messaging must be comprehensible, accurate, and actionable.
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For trips shorter than six days, vaccinated passengers will no longer need to obtain a negative test result before boarding.
They're trying to pressure the federal government into getting organized about vaccines.
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The larger, louder half of Penn & Teller talks masks, vaccines, compassion, Bob Dylan, and much, much more.
The feds botch another epidemic.
One vaccination requires 100 pages of government paperwork to be processed before treatment.
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Foot-dragging and red tape by the CDC and the FDA have fueled an avoidable outbreak.
Time for a new Operation Warp Speed?
Anti-discrimination law was pioneered by the political left. But, in recent years, conservatives have increasingly tried to use it for their own purposes.
The estimate implies an overall infection fatality rate of about 0.5 percent, although that number should be viewed with caution.
The Stanford professor and Great Barrington Declaration coauthor stands up to COVID-19 autocrats and disastrous lockdowns by following the science.
Though travel isn't completely back to normal, this change is an overdue acknowledgment that we can't always view COVID-19 transmission as catastrophic.
Revived mandates remind everyone that governments have done far more harm than good in the pandemic.
If the rules don't apply to everyone, they ought not apply to anyone.
Meanwhile the FDA dawdles over second boosters as new COVID-19 wave approaches
The city's private employer vaccine mandate is not just an overreaching policy; it's now a completely nonsensical and ineffective one.
Disagreement over pandemic policy accelerates the slide toward authoritarianism in another country.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."