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DHHS Stops Reporting Covid Cases by Vaccination Status

The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending April 23

The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending April 4

Part 2: North Carolina’s Housing Opportunity

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Why mask orders were wrong and must never return

The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending January 31

This past week 97.7% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone. Nevertheless, 39 out of 40 (97.4%) adult North Carolinians — and more…

Top Tech Companies Then and Now

The Internet has come a long way from the days of AOL’s universally recognized dial-up sound, Netflix’s DVD-by-mail service, and MySpace’s top friends list. What used to be seen as a…

The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending January 24

This past week 96.8% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone. Nevertheless, 24 out of 25 (96.1%) adult North Carolinians — and 93.7% of all…

“Freedom and Whisky” and the Opposite: Lessons from a Burns Night in Raleigh

The pub itself is now gone, a victim of Gov. Cooper’s idiotic lockdowns. A public house for community gathering, eating, drinking, singing, dancing, even poetry reading cannot survive long on…

Who Contracted Covid-19 in NC in December?

Over the month of December, 59.7% of new Covid-19 cases in North Carolina were to unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated individuals. Only 5.3% of new cases were to people who…

The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending January 18

This past week 96.6% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone. Also, about 19 out of 20 (94.9%) adult North Carolinians are estimated…

Be Terrified! Watch WRAL Sensationalize a DHHS Data Dump

DHHS adds a glut of cases from Dec. 31 to Jan. 11. WRAL's danger-red "BREAKING" banner blares: "44,833 people in NC tested positive for COVID in the past 24 hrs."

The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending January 10

Image source: Screenshot from a Youtube video posted Jan. 8 featuring happy crowds enjoying the NC Chinese Lantern Festival at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, which does not require masks…

Fell Off a Ladder and Came Down with Covid

Since at least October 2020, we have been trying to find out how many of North Carolina’s Covid-19 hospitalizations were for people whose Covid infection was so bad that it put…

The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending January 3

This past week about 98.8% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone. Also about 11 out of 12 (91.4%) adult North Carolinians are…

North Carolina’s Success with Sunset Provisions Should Allay HHS’s Worries

On December 28, 2021, Jon Sanders submitted public comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding HHS's proposed rule to rescind its recently finalized Securing Updated…