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Adalja Offers Advice to Biden
Dr. Amesh Adalja, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, offers President-elect Biden advice for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 has demonstrated, new deadly viruses can spread quickly and easily around the globe, causing significant loss of life and economic ruin. With nearly 200 epidemics occurring each year, the…
The Chickens are Coming Home
Throughout the pandemic, government officials have made policy decisions founded on short-term thinking. They have made decisions to solve an immediate problem while failing to consider the full context. It was inevitable that eventually the chickens would come home to roost. For example, when government forced businesses to close, tens of millions lost their jobs…
Life without a Livelihood
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, government officials have repeatedly told us that their primary objective is to save lives. And to accomplish that goal, they have forced businesses to close or operate under less than ideal conditions. Not surprisingly, many workers–more than twenty million–have lost their job, their livelihood. The government’s efforts to save lives has…
Fauci Knows What is Best for You
In late December, Anthony Fauci said that “anything that could get people more vaccinated would be welcome.” He was responding to a question about requiring domestic air passengers to be fully vaccinated. Fauci went on to say, A vaccine requirement for a person getting on the plane is just another level of getting people to…
Whatever it Takes
A growing number of European countries are requiring anyone going into public to be vaccinated. Switzerland, for example, prohibits the unvaccinated from eating in restaurants, attending concerts, or going to the gym. Austria will make vaccination mandatory on February 1. These measures have broad public support. The vaccinated majority sees the unvaccinated minority as an…