Dr. Deborah Birx on Sunday said the US is in a new phase in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, saying that the deadly virus is more widespread than when it first took hold in the US earlier this year. “What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread. It’s into the rural as...

Decent Americans who are feeling perplexed today shouldn’t be ashamed about it. There is good reason to be perplexed. On the one hand, in the name of health and safety, we are being asked by the government to compromise personal freedoms that we have always taken for granted: going to work, going to church, sending our children off to school,...

Center for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield said in a Buck Institute webinar that suicides and drug overdoses have surpassed the death rate for COVID-19 among high school students. Redfield argued that lockdowns and lack of public schooling constituted a disproportionally negative impact on young peoples’ mental health. Source: CDC Director Compares Rate of Suicides to COVID-19 Deaths

Ten years ago I published an article called “No More Crying ‘Spanish Flu,’ ” in part because with every pandemic or potential pandemic that’s exactly what public health service gurus and the media were doing. And in part because the comparison to the 1918–19 flu was always ludicrous, based not on science but primal fear. Source: Fauci Finally, Falsely, Invokes...

A strange thing is happening in the debate about how to reopen America’s 100,000-or-so schools in the fall. As the political debate is just heating up, the medical and scientific debate is essentially ending. You would not know it watching the news coverage in the mainstream media, and certainly not by following the hysteria and fear-mongering on social media. Source:...

For months, through travel bans, economic shutdowns, reopenings, reclosings, mask mandates and more, Democrats have hysterically urged the Trump administration to “listen to the science.” There has been no need for the screaming. After all, President Trump appointed the country’s top medical and disease experts to a task force on February 26. For weeks on end, we heard from these...

Forty five percent of counties across the United States are currently battling uncontrollable COVID-19 outbreaks, a data map shows – as the latest models predict the number of deaths will surge by at least 20,000 in the next four weeks. Source: Coronavirus US: 45% of counties seeing epidemic spread | Daily Mail Online

The first Wuhan coronavirus vaccine is showing promising results, meaning it’s likely to begin a final clinical trial. Researchers say the vaccine boosted people’s immune systems, which could be enough to protect against the virus. Source: The First Wuhan Coronavirus Vaccine Has Promising Results

By: Editorial Board – wsj.com – July 13, 2020 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 children under age 15 have died from Covid-19. In a typical year 190 children die of the flu, 436 from suicide, 625 from homicide, and 4,114 from unintentional deaths such as drowning. Only two children under age 18 have died in Chicago—fewer...

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – July 6, 2020 Some early assumptions about Covid-19 no longer add up—and that could be good news for the future progress of the virus. There are reasons to think the novel coronavirus began spreading earlier than previously understood, raising the possibility that herd immunity is closer than we think. Chinese authorities say they first...