Why Americans Can't Trust the CDC's COVID-19 Advice
The agency continues a pattern of arbitrary, dubious, and ever-changing recommendations.
The agency continues a pattern of arbitrary, dubious, and ever-changing recommendations.
The CDC's recommendations have never been purely a matter of science.
New CDC guidelines strengthen the already compelling case for doing so.
Local officials should end most pandemic restrictions immediately.
It's less dumb than it sounds.
The flawed documents seem destined to be part of life long after the reason for their existence is gone.
The agency's disease advice is seen as increasingly irrelevant by more Americans.
Doing so will protect constitutional rights, reduce vaccine hesitancy, and increase liberty - all at once.
This feel-good gesture will discourage future investment and innovation.
The pharmaceutical industry is on track to supply enough doses to vaccinate 7 billion people this year.
The upsides and the possible downsides of transmissible vaccines .
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The emphasis on a goal that may be impossible to reach reduces the incentive to get vaccinated.
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Physician Rand Paul is curiously absent.
Who could possibly have known that that would happen?
Evaluating risk is hard in an era of parenting panic.
But only after the company jumps over more regulatory hurdles.
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.
The decision by the CDC and FDA to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was a disastrous misstep.
The risks of blood clots are much lower than the risks of COVID-19 illness, hospitalizations, and deaths.
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This is no time to undermine intellectual property rights for vaccine makers.
Global supply chains beat government-directed manufacturing once again.
Yet the company is still getting stupidly scolded by public health busybodies
It's a regulation-heavy Monday.
At present, there is nothing in federal law that should preclude vaccination requirements for returns to workplaces and campuses.
Technological breakthroughs and policy progress mean humanity may never again have to endure a disaster like COVID-19.
The role of the state is to protect rights and guard against fraud, not to prevent people from making risky choices.
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.
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.
Technological breakthroughs mean we'll never again have to suffer with disasters like the novel coronavirus—if politicians will get out of the way.
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Vaccine hesitancy will decline as more family, friends, and neighbors get vaccinated.
It's too late for health passports to make a difference, but the damage could be immense.
Would vaccine vigilantes be justified in stealing and distributing AstraZeneca doses locked up by order of the government?
Even though COVID-19 spread is low, Brits love their lockdown.
The precautionary principle kills again.
A rough and optimistic projection for the pandemic ending sooner rather than later.
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"The benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine...outweigh the risks of side effects."
"Vaccine nationalism" is going to make the pandemic last longer than it otherwise would.
Many of the president’s pledges require state and local cooperation.
Some provisions provide direct aid. Others, not so much.
Burdensome regulations have likely cost lives.
Federal predictions that 20 million Americans would be vaccinated by the end of 2020 were off by an order of magnitude.