Biden Wants To Punish Facebook for the Government's Own Vaccine Failures
Federal health bureaucrats should stop scapegoating social media.
Vaccines
No, Biden, Facebook Isn't Killing People
Also, regulation is (still) not the answer to online misinformation.
Biden Charges Facebook With Homicide, While His Surgeon General Recommends 'Legal and Regulatory Measures' To Suppress COVID-19 'Misinformation'
Speech is protected by the First Amendment even when it discourages vaccination.
If the CDC Can Impose a Nationwide Eviction Moratorium, Why Can't It Impose a Nationwide Vaccine Mandate?
It could, if it actually had the vast public health powers that the Biden administration claims it does.
Ohio Considers Ban on Vaccine Requirements in Schools and Private Businesses
It's not "freedom" to tell business owners they have to let unvaccinated people onto their premises.
The Best Forecast of COVID-19's Impact Suggests Post-Pandemic Normality Is in Sight for Americans
Daily U.S. COVID-19 deaths are approaching the influenza average.
Why Did YouTube Remove This Reason Video?
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?
Novavax Vaccine 100% Effective Against Both Moderate and Severe COVID-19
And it's easier to distribute than the current vaccines, which require ultra-cold storage.
Biden Administration To Donate 500 Million Doses of Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 Vaccine to Poor Countries
Epidemics anywhere threaten immunization efforts everywhere, including here at home.
Steven Johnson: How We Doubled Life Expectancy in the 20th Century
The Extra Life author on past scientific breakthroughs, COVID-19 vaccines, and renewing trust and confidence in public health agencies.
Big Government Is Back, Baby!
And hope for the future (still) lies outside of the state.
The White House Is Hoping New Vaccine Partnership With Dating Apps Will Convince Singles To Get Their Shots
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 New York Times Promotes a COVID Cult of Caution That Requires Vaccinated People To Act As if They're Not
The paper gives short shrift to evidence that vaccines nearly eliminate the risk of infection.
The Pandemic Could Have Been Over Much Sooner—If Not for the FDA
At critical junctures, the FDA slowed vaccine development and rollout. Its decisions almost certainly cost lives.
Why Americans Can't Trust the CDC's COVID-19 Advice
The agency continues a pattern of arbitrary, dubious, and ever-changing recommendations.
The CDC's Ever-Shifting COVID-19 Advice Shows the Agency Is Ill-Suited To Decide Which Risks Are Acceptable
The CDC's recommendations have never been purely a matter of science.
Universities Should Free the Vaccinated From Covid Restrictions on Campus
New CDC guidelines strengthen the already compelling case for doing so.
CDC Says Vaccinated People Don't Need To Wear Masks or Socially Distance At All
Local officials should end most pandemic restrictions immediately.
Ohio Will Spend Coronavirus Relief Funds on $1 Million Dollar Lottery for the Vaccinated
It's less dumb than it sounds.
Vaccine Passports Will Outlast the Pandemic
The flawed documents seem destined to be part of life long after the reason for their existence is gone.
CDC Greatly Exaggerates Risk of Outdoor COVID-19 Transmission
The agency's disease advice is seen as increasingly irrelevant by more Americans.
Free the Vaccinated From Covid Restrictions
Doing so will protect constitutional rights, reduce vaccine hesitancy, and increase liberty - all at once.
Biden Administration Uselessly Waives COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Rights
This feel-good gesture will discourage future investment and innovation.
Biden Administration Should Absolutely Reject Patent Waivers for COVID-19 Vaccines
The pharmaceutical industry is on track to supply enough doses to vaccinate 7 billion people this year.
Prevent Human Epidemics by Infecting Wild Animals With Self-Disseminating Vaccines
The upsides and the possible downsides of transmissible vaccines .
The Red Flags in Biden's State of the Union Address
Plus: Is the coronavirus vaccine the most libertarian vaccine yet?
If COVID-19 Herd Immunity Is 'Not Attainable,' Does It Matter?
The emphasis on a goal that may be impossible to reach reduces the incentive to get vaccinated.
COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Plummet Since Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause
Plus: Groups pressure Biden to fight "disinformation," Bill de Blasio promises July 1 reopening for NYC, and more...
Congressional GOP Doctors Urge Americans To Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19
Physician Rand Paul is curiously absent.
The FDA's 'Safety Pause' Predictably Lowered Americans' Confidence in Safety of J&J COVID-19 Vaccine
Who could possibly have known that that would happen?
Why Are Parents Afraid To Let Vaccinated Grandparents Visit Unvaccinated Grandkids?
Evaluating risk is hard in an era of parenting panic.
After Thousands Die Unnecessarily, the U.S. Agrees to Let India Have Its AstraZeneca Vaccines
But only after the company jumps over more regulatory hurdles.
COVID-19 Industrial Policy Fails Again
A Connecticut company got a $138 million government contract in order to break America's supposed "dependence" on foreign-made syringes. It has yet to produce even a single one.
Public Health Experts Have Lost the Benefit of the Doubt
The decision by the CDC and FDA to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was a disastrous misstep.
The FDA's Decision To Pause J&J Vaccination Will Kill People
The risks of blood clots are much lower than the risks of COVID-19 illness, hospitalizations, and deaths.
CNN Says 10 Percent of Vaccinated Air Travelers May Catch COVID. That's Completely Wrong.
Plus: Tyler Cowen on libertarianism now, inflation fears, and more...
Don't Suspend Vaccine Patents, We're Already on Track To Vaccinate 7 Billion People in 2021
This is no time to undermine intellectual property rights for vaccine makers.
Industrial Policy Failed With Vaccines Too
Global supply chains beat government-directed manufacturing once again.
Leave Walgreens Alone. They're Doing a Better Job Than the FDA and the CDC.
Yet the company is still getting stupidly scolded by public health busybodies
Voting Laws, High-Speed Rails, and Vaccine Passports
It's a regulation-heavy Monday.
May Employers and Universities Require COVID-19 Vaccinations?
At present, there is nothing in federal law that should preclude vaccination requirements for returns to workplaces and campuses.
The Last Pandemic
Technological breakthroughs and policy progress mean humanity may never again have to endure a disaster like COVID-19.
Abolish the FDA
The role of the state is to protect rights and guard against fraud, not to prevent people from making risky choices.
Vermont Is Prioritizing 'BIPOC' Households for Vaccines. That's Almost Certainly Unconstitutional.
Anyone 16 or older and identifying as BIPOC can get a vaccine in Vermont now. Whites under the age of 50 will have to wait a little longer.
How the Government Timidly Stood in the Way of COVID-Fighting Innovations
Without the feds in the way, we could have rolled out at-home diagnostic testing, set up human challenge trials, approved vaccines sooner, and vaccinated Americans more quickly.
Ronald Bailey: Covid-19 Should Be Our Last Pandemic
Technological breakthroughs mean we'll never again have to suffer with disasters like the novel coronavirus—if politicians will get out of the way.
