(Headline USA) The Biden administration for the first time Tuesday allowed journalists inside its main border detention facility for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 people --- including children and families --- were crammed into a space intended for 250 and the youngest were...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden's pleas for states to stick with mask mandates were being largely ignored Tuesday as several Republican governors stayed on track to drop the requirement in their states.
Biden and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Americans must continue to wear...
(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) When COVID-19 first came to our shores, it presented policymakers and elected officials with a crisis like nothing in living memory.
In the year since, states have taken markedly different approaches to pandemic policy. Some, like New York, embraced sweeping government lockdowns and top-down mandates...
(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) Most young people are at little risk of dying from the coronavirus.
But a new Pew Research survey shows that they are disproportionately bearing the consequences of heavy-handed pandemic lockdowns and isolating government restrictions.
Pew finds that an astounding 32 percent of young adults aged 18...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed on Monday to sign an executive order prohibiting the requirement of COVID-19 vaccine passports in the state after it was reported that the Biden administration is developing such credentials for all Americans.
“It’s completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose...
Former President Donald Trump harshly criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx --- both who led his White House Coronavirus Taskforce --- for “trying to reinvent history” in their criticisms of his administration’s handling of the pandemic.
Fauci and Birx were interviewed by CNN for a special titled “COVID WAR: The...
(Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education) Few people in 2020 came under more heat than Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s top epidemiologist.
But the man who forged Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to COVID-19 early in the pandemic says new international data reveal a hard truth about government lockdowns.
“I think people will probably think very...
The World Health Organization is facing bipartisan criticism for its COVID-19 origins report that suggested the virus came from an animal rather than the Wuhan lab in China.
A leaked draft of the joint report from the WHO and China states it is “extremely unlikely” that the coronavirus escaped from...
Dr. Anthony Fauci warned parents on Sunday not to allow their children to play together without wearing masks, despite recent studies that confirm children rarely spread the coronavirus.
“The children can clearly wind up getting infected,” Fauci, who is now serving as President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, told CBS...
The Joe Biden administration is reportedly working with travel and technology companies to create a coronavirus vaccine passport that some businesses might start to require.
An administration official told CNN that multiple agencies are working to develop health credentials that Americans would use as proof of vaccination.
Several industries considering requiring...
(Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education) A recent survey found that more than one-third of Americans overestimate by as much as a factor of ten the probability a person with COVID-19 will require hospitalization.
Researchers involved in the Franklin Templeton/Gallup study asked Americans in December what “percentage of people who have...
The New Jersey gym that has refused to comply with lockdown orders is offering free memberships to customers who don’t want to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
In light of @krispykreme giving free donuts for receiving the CVD shot, here at @TheAtilisGym we are giving out free memberships to all who...