Liberty
Covid Vaccine for Kids: Know the Facts
With children ages 5-11 newly eligible for the Covid vaccine, Gov. Roy Cooper declared that getting your young children vaccinated is “the responsible thing to do.” “The responsible thing to…
Influenza
Health Care
Amassing evidence against mask mandates
Yinon Weiss writes for the Federalist about evidence countering the supposed benefits of wearing masks to fight COVID-19. Masks have become a political tool and a talisman. When COVID-19 hit,…
Research Brief
Health Care
The Fog of COVID-19 Data: Why is North Carolina so delinquent in reporting death data to the CDC?
Given doubts about the quality of COVID-19 data collection, it’s very useful to know whether a state is witnessing more deaths than usual. All the more so when the fear…
Liberty
DHHS makes North Carolina dead last in reporting deaths data to the CDC
It's reasonable to infer that North Carolina hasn't witnessed excess deaths in the weeks following May 16. The state already was below the excess deaths threshold then, and COVID deaths…
Health Care
The Complications of COVID-19 Fatality Data
This week, JLF’s Senior Fellow and former Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Dr. Don van der Vaart, wrote a research brief analyzing the currently available data…
Research Brief
Liberty
The Fog of COVID-19 Data: An Introduction
For weeks now, Americans have lived in a suspended state as they grapple with the response to COVID-19, a disease caused by a “novel” coronavirus that appears to have originated…
Health Care
Some Good News Regarding COVID-19
A group of Chinese scientists have just published the resultus of a study in which they compared transmission rates for various Chinese cities. They find that, “High Temperature and High…
Health Care
Media malpractice and the coronavirus
Michael Brendan Dougherty takes major media outlets to task at National Review Online for their approach to coronavirus stories. Maybe something about this pattern of facts infuriates you, as it…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online that it’s hard to distinguish between flu and vaping-related illnesses. Andy Taylor’s Daily Journal challenges the claim that political polarization is based mostly…
Health Care
Big Agenda Agenda For Today’s Health and Human Services Committee Meeting
If you’re interested in tuning into this morning’s Health and Human Services (HHS) committee meeting, it’s still going strong. Click here to access the audio. Today’s topics that have been…
Liberty
Even More on That Recovery
Eblen Charities has agreed to accept federal funding for home heating assistance. Meanwhile, paying customers are keeping their homes at bone-chilling temperatures this flu season. Presumably, the upper classes are…
Liberty
Consult Your Bureaucrat
The Buncombe County Commissioners will receive a report on the county’s strategies for dealing with swine and seasonal flu. It was a given that swine flu hype would extend the…