Is Sweden's COVID-19 Policy 'Relatively Rational' or 'Calamitous'?
If the goal is minimizing the death toll over the long run, it is too soon to say.
If the goal is minimizing the death toll over the long run, it is too soon to say.
As federal guidelines suggested classifying more industries as "essential" so that they could reopen, Gov. Whitmer arbitrarily did the opposite.
Elizabeth Linscott, who tested positive for COVID-19, says she objected to the wording of the health department's isolation orders.
Trends in Massachusetts highlight the importance of voluntary changes in behavior.
The evidence suggests Americans are right to wonder.
New infections are down nationwide but rising in some places as people rebel against government-recommended precautions.
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The decision says the "unbridled and unfettered consolidation of authority in one unelected official" violates due process and the separation of powers.
Since meager testing resources left officials ignorant of crucial facts about the epidemic, they made policy decisions without the evidence necessary to assess their proportionality.
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The episode illustrates the perils of confirmation bias on both sides of the debate about disease control measures.
Two models suggest that broad restrictions had less impact on the epidemic than commonly thought.
As SCOTUS declines to issue an injunction, the chief justice says the state's COVID-19 control measures seem consistent with the First Amendment.
Two models generate strikingly different estimates.
Supreme Court precedent suggests COVID-19 restrictions that discriminate against churches are presumptively unconstitutional.
Control measures should be based on emerging evidence about the danger posed by the virus.
That rate is much lower than the numbers used in the horrifying projections that shaped the government response to the epidemic.
All of it, The New York Times assumes.
The ruling says the state's top health official exceeded her statutory authority by ordering "nonessential" businesses to close.
Courts are beginning to recognize that public health powers, while broad, are not a blank check.
Sensible social distancing does not require staying in your house.
A seemingly arcane dispute about administrative law has profound implications for the limits of public health authority.
An Illinois resident obtained a TRO by citing a 30-day limit, while a New Hampshire hair salon owner says the goal of her state's lockdown has been achieved.
Cheap accurate testing would enable the safe reopening of the U.S. economy.
Event production is one of the less visible victims of the virus. Recreating their services when such companies die won't be easy.
Why not let recovered coronavirus patients out of lockdown?
Government-mandated unemployment is "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to "sit on the couch and watch TV," says the wealthy star of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
The real action in the coming months lies between those two extremes.
But he has raised his estimate of the virus's reproduction number, which implies a lower fatality rate than his research group initially assumed.
Or is the Second Amendment suspended for the duration of the epidemic?
The point of shutting down the "nonessential" economy, New York's governor explains, is to "save lives, period, whatever it costs."
New York's governor insists his edict "mandating that 100% of the workforce must stay home" is "not a shelter-in-place order."
The spread of COVID-19 is making once unthinkably extreme policies seem like the least bad option.
The extent of state and federal quarantine powers is surprisingly unsettled.
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While the use of force can be justified to curtail the spread of communicable diseases, the threat has to be weighed against the burdens on potential carriers.
A nurse's successful quarantine challenge is a victory for reason and due process.
Crying "disease" does not justify forcible isolation of asymptomatic health care workers.