Health Care Workers Need Masks (and the Rest of Us Need Them, Too)
DIY manufacturers scramble to reduce shortages, as public health officials send mixed messages about the efficacy of broader use.
DIY manufacturers scramble to reduce shortages, as public health officials send mixed messages about the efficacy of broader use.
They were mocked for sounding the alarm. Now they're the ones providing the solutions.
Reason's Ronald Bailey on flattening the curve without killing freedom.
Here is the best way to make sense of constantly changing predictions, says Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey
The agency's emphasis on caution over speed led to needless suffering and loss of life long before the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Q&A with Alex Tabarrok, an economist at George Mason University and blogger at Marginal Revolution
Politicians are merely using COVID-19 to push for policies they already wanted.
So far politicians have been acting as if only one side of the ledger matters.
But he stands by his reasoning and predicts that global deaths will peak under 50,000.
Established makers of N95 masks are ramping up production as fast as they can. New manufacturers hoping to help meet demand are running into regulatory roadblocks.
If you really want politicians to do something helpful, ask them to stop "leading" and to get out of the way.
How broken bureaucracy and poor political leadership combined to botch the rollout of COVID-19 testing
In the pandemic's wake, we'll learn, work, and live more online than ever.
Plus: Trump wants to bail out airlines, and he called COVID-19 the "Chinese virus."
The agency's scaremongering about e-cigarettes undermined its credibility on the eve of a true public health crisis.
Despite the slow-growing anxieties and government incompetence, expect Americans to be resilient in fighting the pandemic.
The biotech entrepreneur and Silicon Valley visionary calls for a "digital Dunkirk" to fix government failure and preserve future freedoms.
FDA and CDC bureaucrats stopped private and academic diagnostic tests from being deployed.
Your coronavirus prepping would be a lot tougher in a world without free markets. Libertarians might be the only ones who recognize that.
A study in a state where marijuana is legal confirms the predominant role of cannabis products from illegal sources.
Reason's science correspondent explains who is getting infected, how to protect yourself, and why nobody should be freaking out. Yet.
Coronavirus misinformation is spreading faster than the disease itself.
No matter how bad the outbreak might turn out to be, politicians will find a way to make it worse.
Since prescription restrictions pushed drug users toward deadlier substitutes, the decrease in fatalities is more plausibly attributed to harm reduction measures.
The vast majority of patients with vaping-related lung injuries who used cannabis products said they got them from "informal sources."
The black-market additive showed up in lung fluid from 48 of 51 patients with "probable or confirmed" diagnoses.
The agency’s indifference between smoking and vaping is scientifically indefensible.
Although the CDC is now emphasizing the potential hazards of vitamin E acetate, it continues to warn the public about e-cigarettes that don't contain it.
The CDC found vitamin E acetate in all 29 samples of lung fluid it analyzed.
In cases where the information was known, just 11 percent of patients said they had vaped only nicotine.
Democratic legislators ignore the tremendous harm-reducing potential of smoke-free nicotine delivery.
Vague lung disease warnings tar harm-reducing e-cigarettes while obscuring the role of black-market cannabis products.
The latest findings highlight the irrationality of banning legal e-cigarettes that deliver nicotine.
Citing respiratory diseases associated with black-market THC products, the state is banning legal e-cigarettes that are far less hazardous than the conventional kind.
Contrary to the evidence, public health officials and journalists continue to link the recent outbreak of respiratory illnesses with legal e-cigarettes.
If that confusion drives vapers back to smoking or discourages others from making the switch, it will have deadly consequences.
Among patients in Illinois and Wisconsin, 83 percent admitted vaping cannabis extracts bought on the black market.
The findings reinforce the suspicion that patients' symptoms are caused largely by additives or contaminants in black-market THC products.
While the specific causes remain unclear, contaminants and adulterants in illegal vapes look like the most likely explanation.
What do respiratory conditions in people who vaped black-market cannabis extracts tell us about the hazards of Juul?
The FDA Opioid Labeling Accuracy Act would aggravate the widespread problem of involuntary dose reductions and patient abandonment.
The decision by the New Hampshire Board of Medicine suggests state officials are beginning to recognize the harm caused by the crackdown on pain pills.
The agency’s acknowledgment of the suffering caused by its prescribing advice may be too little, too late.
The CDC decries abrupt, involuntary dose reductions and patient abandonment without acknowledging its responsibility for those unintended but foreseeable consequences.
The CDC's advice has been widely interpreted as requiring involuntary tapering of medication so it does not exceed an arbitrary threshold.
One survey shows cigarette use holding steady, while another shows it continuing to fall.
The doctors' lobby is right that the arbitrary rule is medically unsound and misconstrues the CDC's guidelines.