In 2020, Gov. Roy Cooper issued a slew of executive orders under the rubric of limiting the spread of Covid-19, which he justified by the slogan of “science and data.”…
Since last summer, the majority of Covid-19 hospitalizations in North Carolina have been to people fully vaccinated or boosted against Covid. Especially in recent weeks, fully vaccinated or boosted individuals…
A newly published journal article available from the U.S. National Institute of Health’s PubMed Central (PMC) repository offers — to put it mildly — a novel reason for the averred…
Read the whole thing. Two changes I'd like to highlight here are (a) changes to the CDC's early discussion about "temporary discomfort" from the injection and, even more importantly, (b)…
A bipartisan bill to address PFAS pollution would require polluters like Chemours to reimburse public water systems for cleanup, abatement, and technology needs. Debate over the bill includes concerns it…
The governor continued to say that “science and data” backed his orders. I went through all 23 of his citations looking for findings strong enough to justify such an extreme…
This past week over 99.6% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and nearly nine out of 10 (89.7%) adult North Carolinians are…
This news release from N.C. Senate Republicans arrived this morning in my in box. Raleigh, N.C. – Yesterday members of the Joint Legislative Commission of Governmental Operations’ Subcommittee on Use and Distribution…
Imagine a scenario where people's jobs, education, travel, grocery buying, access to government services, etc. are threatened every six months if they don't get another booster.
WRAL tried to make viewers think "mob mentality" rather than "experts' opinion" was responsible for Harnett Co. schools making masks optional. A few weeks later, WRAL decided to check back…
Even for an administration known to color well outside the lines of science and data, Cohen's comment was ignorant of an impressive and growing body of research into the immunity…
Prior to Spring 2020, established research had demonstrated using randomized control trials (RCTs, the research gold standard) that face masks don't prevent infection from respiratory viruses. Since then, however, politicized…