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Gov. Greg Abbott's position on private vaccination requirements is confused and confusing.
Many things once done as a matter of right are now privileges to be dispensed or withheld by those in power.
The new advisory “is not based on any actual threats or plots” but is purely a response to a “rise in anti-government rhetoric.”
A vaccine mandate for international visitors cuts Africa off for no good reason.
Mandates, instead of incentives, were always going to drive people away.
Online censorship by proxy undermines the ordinary process for checking claims and counterclaims.
The Reason Roundtable discusses property rights, vaccine passports, and media ethics.
So a federal court concludes, in a decision about cruise lines but using reasoning that likely applies to other businesses as well.
They'll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.
once the vaccine gets final FDA approval (and subject to medical and religious exemptions).
The results also indicate that vaccinated people infected by delta have lower viral loads and less severe symptoms than unvaccinated people.
Los Angeles County is largely vaccinated. This is a punitive, authoritarian performance.
That conclusion is not justified by the CDC's Provincetown data, and it is inconsistent with a new study from Singapore.
The lawsuit is filed by our own coblogger Todd Zywicki, a professor at the George Mason law school.
De Blasio's dataless call to create a class of citizens barred from civic life is an intolerable imposition on New Yorkers' liberties.
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Federal officials invited alarmist press coverage of breakthrough infections.
Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Key to NYC" initiative will require people to get their shots in order to enter the city's bars, restaurants, gyms, and other indoor venues.
to ban such "nonconsensual and knowing approach[es] within 30 feet of another person ... for the purpose of passing a leaflet ..., displaying a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling" "in connection with any vaccination services."
The administration is dismayed by the alarmist news coverage it invited.
Researchers are still trying to determine what role vaccinated carriers may have played in the Massachusetts cases identified by the CDC.
The agency says it found high viral loads in vaccinated people infected by the coronavirus, but the significance of those results is unclear.
Because adults can't evaluate risk, kids continue to suffer the most from COVID policy, despite suffering the least from COVID.
The government is also recommending universal masking in schools this fall.
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Even with coronavirus deaths at a trickle, Prime Minister Boris Johnson won’t rule out more lockdowns.
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The vaccines are available. The masks are beside the point.
The administration’s public pressure campaign against COVID-19 "misinformation" cannot be reconciled with its avowed respect for freedom of expression.
Federal health bureaucrats should stop scapegoating social media.
Also, regulation is (still) not the answer to online misinformation.
Speech is protected by the First Amendment even when it discourages vaccination.
It could, if it actually had the vast public health powers that the Biden administration claims it does.
It's not "freedom" to tell business owners they have to let unvaccinated people onto their premises.
Daily U.S. COVID-19 deaths are approaching the influenza average.
Our coverage of biohackers working on a DIY vaccine last year was solid reporting on an important subject. If YouTube insists on banning journalism like this, what's next?
And it's easier to distribute than the current vaccines, which require ultra-cold storage.
Epidemics anywhere threaten immunization efforts everywhere, including here at home.
The Extra Life author on past scientific breakthroughs, COVID-19 vaccines, and renewing trust and confidence in public health agencies.
And hope for the future (still) lies outside of the state.
This new initiative will "help people meet people who have that universally attractive quality: They've been vaccinated from COVID-19," said White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt.
The paper gives short shrift to evidence that vaccines nearly eliminate the risk of infection.
At critical junctures, the FDA slowed vaccine development and rollout. Its decisions almost certainly cost lives.