By Robby Soave The gatherings are ill-advised but understandable given the harms of government-enforced shutdowns. In their desperation to get back to work, some Americans are taking to the streets to demand that the government end the quarantine. Comedian Patton Oswalt is unsympathetic. “Anne Frank spent 2 years hiding in an attic and we’ve beenContinue reading “Celebrities and the Media Shouldn’t Sneer at Coronavirus Lockdown Protesters”
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Physicians Should Be Allowed To Practice Across State Lines—and Not Just During a Pandemic
By Vittorio Nastasi The COVID-19 pandemic is straining all the country’s health care resources right now—including the supply of physicians. In response, nearly all 50 states are temporarily suspending regulations to allow physicians to practice across state lines and to encourage the use of telemedicine, which lets patients interact with doctors remotely via audio orContinue reading “Physicians Should Be Allowed To Practice Across State Lines—and Not Just During a Pandemic”
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Trump Vows to Cut Off U.S. Funding to the World Health Organization
By Brian Doherty President Donald Trump said in a press briefing today that he intends to halt U.S. funding for the World Health Organization (WHO), explaining that “we have deep concerns whether America’s generosity has been put to the best use possible,” particularly given how it has handled the COVID-19 pandemic. “The reality is that the WHOContinue reading “Trump Vows to Cut Off U.S. Funding to the World Health Organization”
2 Decades of Dubious Surveillance Will Make It Much Harder To Track COVID-19 Now
By Scott Shackford Would you tell an app on your phone if you tested positive for COVID-19 so that people who had been in close contact with you could be informed? For many Americans, the answer would be yes, many emphatically so. But deep suspicion about who might see that information and how that information might be usedContinue reading “2 Decades of Dubious Surveillance Will Make It Much Harder To Track COVID-19 Now”
We Can Track COVID-19’s Spread Without Violating Privacy
By Andrea O’Sullivan As the weeks of quarantine and social distancing drag on, many justifiably wonder when life can start getting back to normal. It’s not just cabin fever: Shutdowns mean real economic pain for millions of Americans, to say nothing of the mental and sometimes physical tolls of isolation. Getting Americans back to work is a public health concern, too. WeContinue reading “We Can Track COVID-19’s Spread Without Violating Privacy”
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