If Less Vaping Means More Smoking, That Won't Be a Public Health Victory
Cigarette sales rose last year for the first time in two decades, while a survey of high school seniors found they were vaping less but smoking more.
Cigarette sales rose last year for the first time in two decades, while a survey of high school seniors found they were vaping less but smoking more.
Because the agency ties mask recommendations to virus transmission rather than serious cases, its guidance is unlikely to change anytime soon.
Director Rochelle Walensky characterizes the potential unmasking of even vaccinated children as being "complacent."
Denmark recently lifted all COVID mandates. The U.S. should do the same.
The failure of legal challenges obscures an ongoing scientific debate.
Vaccine hesitancy can, in part, be laid at the feet of experts who betrayed the public’s trust.
Pandemic bans on evictions were supposed to be a temporary measure, but politicians keep extending them.
The agency seems inclined to ban the vaping products that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer because teenagers also like them.
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When you are already convinced a policy makes sense, any evidence will do.
If the government is going to approve them for everyone eventually, why wait?
The Keeping Renters Safe Act would give bureaucrats a blank check to ban evictions during future outbreaks.
The agency didn't just botch the initial test. It resisted mass testing.
The expulsions, ordered by the CDC for the supposed purpose of stopping the spread of Covid-19, are illegal for much the same reasons as was the CDC eviction moratorium recently struck down by the Supreme Court.
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New research shows incidental and mild infections account for a large and rising share of that widely cited number.
Biden's sudden embrace of a federal vaccine requirement seems inconsistent with his acknowledgment that he cannot mandate every COVID-19 precaution he'd like people to follow.
The president seems determined to anoint the agency’s director as the nation’s COVID-19 dictator, no matter what the law says.
If all sensible people agree that students should be forced to wear masks, why do other countries reject that policy?
The agency returns to a research area where it has caused much controversy in the past.
The Court said it "strains credulity" to believe that Congress gave the CDC the "breathtaking amount of authority" it asserted.
This outcome was widely expected by legal commentators.
Hochul’s office reports that some 55,400 people have died of the coronavirus in New York, much higher than the 43,400 claimed by Cuomo, who left office Monday.
The ultra-risk averse agency continues to misunderstand how people actually behave in the wild.
The studies cited by the CDC do not show that preventing COVID-19 outbreaks requires forcing students to cover their faces.
The government "strongly recommends" masking at private outdoor gatherings as well.
If so, public health officials have compounded the problem with disingenuous arguments, dubious policy shifts, and misleading statements.
Next stop, Supreme Court?
The same institution that's unable to run the Postal Service or Amtrak orchestrated our invasion and withdrawal of Afghanistan.
Interviewer Joe Selvaggi and I explore the constitutional and policy issues at stake.
Contrary to what some claim, the Sixth Circuit was the first federal appellate court to issue a ruling on the merits of the CDC eviction moratorium.
Whether or not YouTube should have suspended him, the senator overlooked the limitations of the studies he cited and ignored countervailing research.
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The evidence that the benefits outweigh the costs is not nearly as impressive as mandate enthusiasts imply.
The administration issued the order even while conceding that it lacked the authority to do so.
The Third Amendment Lawyers Association argues in a recent amicus brief that the federal eviction ban requires landlords to quarter soldiers.
The U.K. kept schools open and masks off, and now delta is in their rearview. Why can't Yanks learn?
The study highlights the dangers that government-encouraged "tapering" poses to patients on long-term opioid therapy.
The Supreme Court will likely rule against Biden’s executive gambit.
They'll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.
The results also indicate that vaccinated people infected by delta have lower viral loads and less severe symptoms than unvaccinated people.
That conclusion is not justified by the CDC's Provincetown data, and it is inconsistent with a new study from Singapore.
Federal officials invited alarmist press coverage of breakthrough infections.
Thanks to the Supreme Court's decision in the Cedar Point case, this suit has much better odds of success than previous takings challenges to eviction moratoria.
It still covers some 90% of the country, and still rests on a theory of virtually limitless CDC authority. Even President Biden acknowledges the order is legally dubious.
In Virginia, the breakthrough hospitalization rate is 0.0032 percent and the breakthrough death rate is 0.0009 percent.