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Japan. “Japan’s VAT Blunder.” [A consumption-tax increase hits growth as coronavirus looms.] 2-18-20
Medicine. “Why Does the U.S. Have So Few Confirmed Coronavirus Cases.” By Luciana Borio and Scott Gottlieb. [How officials can prepare for a disease that’s likely more widespread than CDC numbers show.] 2-21-20
China. “Banished in Beijing.” [China expels three WSJ reporters to deflect from its coronavirus woes.] 2-20-20
Medicine. “How Not to Panic Over the Wuhan Virus (or Russia).” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Governments ae starting to use the word pandemic so publics can be ready to protect themselves.] 2-22-20
Economy. “A Market Pandemic.” [Investors get the coronavirus jitters, but please hold the panic.] 2-25-20
Elections. “Trump Versus the Virus.” By Daniel Henninger. [The virus exposes the political weakness of both the president and Bernie Sanders. 2-27-20
Fed. “The Fed Can’t Wait to Respond to the Coronavirus.” By Kevin Warsh. [The pandemic is a threat to the global economy. U.S. central bankers should lead a global response.] 2-27-20
Medicine. “How a Boy’s Blood Stopped an Outbreak.” By Arturo Casadevall. [A school physician’s approach to measles in 1934 has lessons for the coronavirus.] 2-28-20
Coronavirus. “The Coronavirus Isn’t Partisan.” [Maybe we should quarantine Capital Hill until the crisis passes.] 2-28-20
Coronavirus. “Fear Itself Is the Biggest Coronavirus Danger.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Trump is vilified for singing from the same hymnal as Democrats in New York and California.] 2-29-20
Coronavirus. “The Virus and the Economy.” [U.S. growth will take a hit but Trump has a leadership opportunity.] 2-29-20
Coronavirus. “Trump Isn’t Easing Coronavirus Forebodings.” by Peggy Noonan. [If it hits America hard, a lot will change – the national mood, cultural habits, the economy.] 2-29-20
Coronavirus. “Private Medicine to the Rescue.” [The feds are calling on academic labs and big pharma for help.] 3-2-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus and the Tragedy of Iran.” By Robert D. Kaplan. [The Islamic Republic has missed out on global prosperity and is now in its decadent, late-Soviet stage.] 3-2-20
Coronavirus. “Capital Is Part of the Coronavirus Cure.” By Adena Friedman. [And markets have historically been quick to recover from pandemic threats.] 3-3-20
Coronavirus. “A Corona-Sanders Panic Ebbs.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.” [The epidemiology of a new virus collides with the economics of cable news.] 3-4-20
Coronavirus. “The Coronavirus ‘Stimulus.” [The markets aren’t impressed by the Fed or a payroll-yax cut.] 3-4-20
Coronavirus. “Covid-19 May Have You Working At Home.” By Luciana Borio and Scott Gottlieb. [Preventing the virus’s spread will likely require ‘social distancing’ tactics like caceling events.] 3-4-20
Coronavirus. “The Case for a Big Coronavirus Stimulus.” By Jason Furman. [Congress should send you $1,000 – and another $500 for each of your children – as soon as possible.] 3-6-20
Coronavirus. “Fear and Hope Week.” [The jobs report shows the economy was strong before the virus shock.] 3-7-20
Coronavirus. “A Chinese Mystery and Covid-19’s Economic Puzzle.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Has Beijing ‘contained’ the virus? If so, was the cost worth the benefit, and would it be for the U.S.?] 3-7-20
Coronavirus. “’Network Effects’ Multiply a Viral Threat.” By Niall Ferguson. [This isn’t merely a bad flu season. Covid-19 is spreading far faster than most Americans realize.] 3-10-20
Coronavirus. “Trump and the Pandemic.” By Walter Russell Mead. [The virus can’t be bluffed or bullied and will soon become his greatest adversary.] 3-10-20
Coronavirus. “How to Ease the Coronavirus Panic.” By John Greenwood and Steve H. Hanke. [Neither interest-rate cuts nor fiscal stimulus will do the trick. Instead, the Fed needs to inject liquidity.] 3-10-20
Coronavirus. “Private Wealth to the Rescue.” [Philanthropy and business are taking on yhe coronavirus.] 3-11-20
Coronavirus. “Covid-19 Makes Oil Markets Sweat.” By Daniel Yergin. [Russia’s push for lower prices gets a boost from demand shock. Can U.S. shale producers survive?] 3-11-20
Coronavirus. “Why a Pandemic Is Always Political.” By Jason L. Riley. [The posturing on both sides distracts from what could be a productive debate about health.] 3-11-20
Coronavirus. “The Best Stimulus Is Coronavirus Testing Kits.” By Alan S. Blinder. [Until we know the extent of the epidemic, people will avoid going out and spending money.] 3-11-20
Coronavirus. “The Virus and Leadership.” [Trump’s main opponent isn’t Joe Biden. It’s the coronavirus.] 3-12-20
Coronavirus. “Pain and Suffering for Profit.” [Where’s there’s a coronavirus patient, there’s a trial lawyer.] 3-12-20
Coronavirus. “Virus Relief, Good and Bad.” [The Goal is to relieve hardship, not expand the welfare state.] 3-12-20
Coronavirus. “Dodd-Frank Worsens Covid’s Risk.” By Hal Scott. [The Fed, FDIC and Treasury need the same powers they wielded against the 2008 crisis.] 3-12-20
Coronavirus. “Congress Can Take the Edge off Covid-19.” By Michael R. Strain and Scott Gottlieb. [Give cash assistance to low-income Americans so they don’t feel compelled to go to work sick.] 3-12-20
Coronavirus. “Paid sick Leave Is a Failed Cure.” By Aaron Yelowitz and Michael Saltsman. [Washington state already has a mandate. Contrary to Sen. Murray, it hasn’t helped arrest coronavirus. 3-12-20
Coronavirus. “It May Not Be the Virus That Kills Me.” By Mark C. Taylor. [Many lives depend on the medical supply chain, which Covid-10 will severely test.] 3-13-20
Coronavirus. “America’s Self-Shutdown.” [The public has made ‘social distancing’ de facto national policy.] 3-13-20
Coronavirus. “Europe’s Coronavirus Fate Is Already Sealed.” By Joseph C Sternberg. [One reason Britain and Italy are struggling. Their medical systems are too dependent on government.] 3-13-20
Coronavirus. “Include ‘Natural Killer’ Cells in the Covid-19 Arsenal.” By Robert J. Hariri. [They’re part of the innate immune system, which quickly attacks pathogens.] 3-14-20
Coronavirus. ”Trump’s Virus Emergency.” [The White House rolls out a new private-public testing regime.] 3-14-20
Coronavirus. “’Don’t Panic’ Is a Rotten Response.” By Peggy Noonan. [A grave crisis calls for reason and realism, not ‘an abundance of caution.’] 3-14-20
Coronavirus. “Covid-19 Can’t Spread if You Stay Home.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Unfortunately, a recession is part of the cure for an epidemic of communicable disease.] 3-14-20
Coronavirus. “Crisis Means a New Business Era.” By Andy Kessler. [Cheap energy, remote work, and a shift from China will shape the long-term economy.] 3-16-20
Coronavirus. “It’s Dangerous to Test Only the Sick.” By Neeraj Sood. [Random sampling is essential to learn the truth about the virus spread and deadliness.] 3-16-20
Coronavirus. “Virus Relief but New Business Burdens.” [The House bill imposes paid leave mandates that may never go away.] 3-16-20
Coronavirus. “Let the Fed Administer an Antiviral Shot.” By Kevin Warsh. [An emergency lending program would keep a liquidity crisis from turning into a solvency crisis.] 3-16-20
Coronavirus. “’Social Distancing’ in the City That Never Sleeps.” by Tunku Varadarajan. [My 20-year-old son has his own ideas, the fit ‘old guys’ aren’t at the gym and hoarding in Aisle 6.] 3-16-20
Coronavirus. “China’s Coronavirus Opportunity.” By Walter Russell Mead. [If the West turns inward, Beijing will continue to exploit the pandemic’s chaos.] 3-17-20
Coronavirus. “America’s Intensive-Care Dividend.” [The U.S. has more ICU beds as it braces for coronavirus cases.] 3-17-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Will Permanently Change How We Work.” By Matt Burr and Becca Endicott. [Organizations will benefit tremendously from losing the limitations that come with traditional offices.] 3-17-20
Coronavirus. “Questioning the Clampdown.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Will people lose faith when they find out they are expected to get the virus anyway?] 3-18-20
Coronavirus. “The Dog Days of a Pandemic Spring.” By Danny Heltman. [The season of new beginnings is off to a melancholy start.] 3-18-20
Coronavirus. “The Fiscal Stimulus Panic.” [$1,000 checks won’t help the economy, but a new Fed backstop will.] 3-18-20
Coronavirus. “A Tax-Delay Boost.” [Hard to believe, but the IRS delivers good news on filing returns.] 3-18-20
Coronavirus. “Britain’s Better Stimulus.” [Britain’s Chanceller fires a supply-side response to Covid-19.] 3-18-20
Coronavirus. “American Hospitals Can Avoid Italy’s Fate.” By Luciana Borio and Scott Gottlieb. [Deploy telemedicine to determine who needs emergency care, waive licensing rules and more.] 3-18-20
Coronavirus. “How to Treat the Financial Symptoms of Covid-19.” by John H. Cockrane. [Federal spending is needed but not enough. Making loans is better than writing checks. Avoid coercion.] 3-18-20
Coronavirus. “Yes, Flatten the Curve.” By Daniel Henninger. [While medicine fights the coronavirus, much else looks like the madness of crowds.] 3-19-20
Coronavirus. “Stay-at-Home Moms Are Ready for Covid-19.” By Masada Siegal. [I’m already used to telecommuting while tending to the needs of my 4-year-old son.] 3-19-20
Coronavirus. “Trump’s Tariffs Leave the U.S. Short on Vital Medical Supplies.” By Rob’t B. Zoellick. [From gloves to respirators, protectionism is raising costs for the providers fighting the coronavirus.] (Mr. Zoellick is a former World Bank President, U.S. trade representative, deputy secretary of state under Pres. George W. Bush, and Goldman Sachs executive.) 3-19-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Vindicates Capitalism.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Drug companies will save lives, even as Bernie Sanders is denouncing them.] 3-20-20
Coronavirus. “Rethinking the Virus Shutdown,” [No society can safeguard public health for long at the expense of its economic health.] 3-20-20
Coronavirus. “De Blasio Scares, Cuomo Soothes.” [The Governor overrules the mayor’s needless shelter-at-home panic.] 3-20-20
Coronavirus. “The Emergency 401(k) Button.” [A withdrawal exception could help Americans weather the pandemic.] 3-20-20
Coronavirus. “Make America the Medicine Chest of the World.” [Take a page from FDR’s ‘arsenal of democracy’ and mobilize industry to fight Covid-19.] 3-20-20
Coronavirus. “A Constitutional Guide to Emergency Powers.” By David B Rivkin Jr. and Charles Stimson. [Federal leadership is crucial, but there are measures only states have the authority to take.] 3-20-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Imperative: Do No Harm.” By Ron Johnson. [Washington needs to keep focused on specific goals and tailor its interventions to achieve them.] 3-21-20
Coronavirus. “China’s Coronavirus Diplomacy.” By Alexandra Bocchi. [Rome praises Beijing’s ‘solidarity’ in sending ventilators, face masks, doctors and nurses.] 3-21-20
Coronavirus. “Confessions of an Urban Prepper.” By Caroline Aiken Koster. [I’m a New York City lawyer, but coronavirus has brought out the Kentucky survivalist in me.] 3-21-20
Coronavirus. “’Mommy, I Like Coronavirus.” By Erica Komisar. [Busy professionals have an opportunity to reflect on what’s really important.] 3-21-20
Coronavirus. “Leaderless on the Economy.” [Markets aren’t getting a clear picture of what Treasury wants and why.] 3-21-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus and Public Order.” 3-21-20
Coronavirus. “We Need Time to Absorb This.” By Peggy Noonan. [Everyone is thinking through the reality of the coronavirus pandemic and how to rise to the occasion.] 3-21-20
Coronavirus. “The History of Pfizer and Penicillin, and Lessons for Coronavirus.” By Safi Bahcall. [A ‘scientist general’ to coordinate private and public efforts can lead the medical response.] 3-21-20
Coronavirus. “What Victory Looks Like in the Coronavirus War.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [We can try to stop time until a vaccine is ready, but the result might be identical to defeat.] 3-21-20
Coronavirus. “The Extreme State Lockdowns.” [The California and New York orders to stay at home are unsustainable.] 3-21-20
Coronavirus. “Celebrities Skype Away Coronavirus Blues.” By Peter Funt. [TV journalists report the latest news from their home offices.] 3-23-20
Coronavirus. “A Washington Liquidity Infusion.” [The Senate virus bill may help the economy stave off depression.] 3-23-20
Coronavirus. “Elizabeth Warren’s Ranting Resumes.” [The fight against the coronavirus is ‘favoring’ no one.] 3-23-20
Coronavirus. “The Great Toilet Paper Scare.” [Those empty supermarket shelves should soon start to disappear.] 3-23-20
Coronavirus. “How Long Will the Lockdowns Go on?” by Scott Gottlieb. [Soon the U.S. will be able to do 75,000 tests a day. That will make changes in strategy possible.] 3-23-20
Coronavirus. “These Drugs Are Helping Our Covid-19 Patients.” By Jeff Colyer and Daniel Hinthorn. [Evidence is preliminary, but the pandemic doesn’t give us the luxury of time.] 3-23-20
Coronavirus. “Worst Coronavirus Idea: A Ban on Share Buybacks.” By Donald L. Luskin and Chris Hynes. [They are a source of cash for ordinary investors. Ask Warren Buffet.] 3-23-20
Coronavirus. “Loneliness Is a Health Hazard, Too.” By David Kopp. [Reach out to friends, family and neighbors, especially to the elderly and those who live alone,] 3-23-20
Coronavirus. “Cracker Jack Economics.” By Andy Kessler. [A prize inside every package won’t spur recovery from the coronavirus shock.] 3-23-20
Coronavirus. “Will Coronavirus Kill Populism?” by Walter Russell Mead. [Trump’s 2016 shook the world. His re-election would be more consequential.] 3-24-20
Coronavirus. “Business Makes War on Covid-19.” by Wm. McGurn. [U.S. manufacturers turn their might from making cars to making ventilators.] 3-24-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Threatens America’s Nonprofits.” By Angela Williams. [A pandemic makes it difficult to provide vital services and raise money.] 3-24-20
Coronavirus. “The Pelosi-Schumer Contagion.” [Democratic leaders kill a rescue bill under pressure from the left.] 3-24-20
Coronavirus. “California’s Pot Dispensation.” [“…There’s nothing like an “essential” business that may make people sicker.”] 3-24-20
Coronavirus. “Workers of the World Need Employers.” [“…Democrat(s)…declaring that they want to help ‘workers’ and ‘families’ cope with the coronavirus fallout…”] 3-24-20
Coronavirus. “Risk, Uncertainty and Coronavirus.” By Allison Schrager. [We don’t have enough data to know whether drastic lockdowns are worth the economic damage.] 3-24-20
Coronavirus. “What to Do When You’re Sheltering in Place.” By Lance Morrow. [Set a routine and stick to it. Keep your body, clothes and home clean. Occupy your mind and have faith.] 3-24-20
Coronavirus. “China Is a Bad Coronavirus Role Model.” By John P. Walters. [The Communists’ coverup helped create this mess. We’ll need the free world’s innovation to get out of it.] 3-24-20
Coronavirus. “The Happy Few Are the Cured.” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Now let’s get on with saving the economy while protecting the vulnerable. ] 3-25-20
Coronavirus. “Expose First Responders to the Coronavirus.” By Michael Segal. [Young workers who have to quarantine could volunteer to build immunity.] 3-25-20
Coronavirus. “From Shutdown to Phase Two.” [The shift will have to be a transition, and will have to be explained.] 3-25-20
Coronavirus. “Where Is Joe Biden’s Leadership?” 3-25-20
Coronavirus. “Parks and Virus Recreation.” 3-25-20
Coronavirus. “Is Covid-19 as Deadly as They Say?” By Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya. [Current estimates about the coronavirus fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude.] 3-25-20
Coronavirus. “Minorities Bear the Lockdown’s Economic Brunt.” By Jason L. Riley. [They disproportionately work in industries, and for employers, that have been ordered closed.] 3-25-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Brings Back Scarlet Fever Memories.” By Angela Rocco DeCarlo. 3-25-20
Coronavirus. “Flatten the Coronavirus Curve at a Lower Cost.” By John H. Cochrane. [A total shutdown could cost the economy $1 trillion a month. We need more tailored measures.] 3-25-20
Coronavirus. “The High Price of Coronavirus Relief.” [The Fed gets money to save the economy, but Pelosi’s price is steep.] 3-26-20
Coronavirus. “An Olympic Disappointment.” 3-26-20
Coronavirus. “Big Government Contagion.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Appropriators threw hundreds of billions of dollars at the virus – and everything else.] 3-27-20
Coronavirus. “A Coronavirus Great Awakening.” By Robert Nicholson. [Sometimes the most important ingredient for spiritual renewal is a cataclysmic event.] 3-27-20
Coronavirus. “Less Stimulus, More Overdraft Production.” By Tom Giovanetti. [Government backed credit lines would get aid where it’s needed.] 3-27-20
Coronavirus. “Working After the Coronavirus.” [Congress gives workers more to stay at home than some employers pay.] 3-27-20
Coronavirus. “DeSantis Dissent on Lockdowns.” 3-27-20
Coronavirus. “Virtual Doctors Are Here to Stay.” By Peter L. Steinberg. [Coronavirus is speeding adoption of telemedicine. And why not drive through flu swabs?] 3-27-20
Coronavirus. “We Need to Know Who’s Immune.” By Bill Cassidy and Christopher Mores. 3-27-20
Coronavirus. “Rationing Care Is a Surrender to Death.” By Allen C. Guelzo. [Limiting treatment for the old or chronically ill my also civil rights law. There are better ways.] 3-27-20
Coronavirus. “What Do We Want From Our Experts, Anyway?” 3-27-20
Coronavirus. ”How Epidemics Change Civilizations.” (The Weekend Interview with Frank M. Snowden by Jason Willick.) [Measures developed for the plagues of the 14^th century are helping authorities fight the Coronavirus.] 3-28-20
Coronavirus. “The Restaurant at the Edge of he Pandemic.” By Tunku Varadarajan. [Like many small-business owners, the Afghan owners of this Washington joint are staring into an abyss.] 3-28-20
Coronavirus. “A Week of Pain and Progress.” [Infections are rising, but markets are calmer and medical aid is surging. ] 3-28-20
Coronavirus. “Worst-Case Coronavirus Science.” 3-28-20
Coronavirus. “My Corona (or Is It Schmutz?)” by Peggy Noonan. [I went in for a Covid-19 test March 17. I’m feeling much better but still awaiting my results.] 3-28-20
Coronavirus. “Old age Is a Bummer for the Baby Boomers.” by Michael Medved. [My generation, dominant for so long, gets a taste of its mortality with the help of the coronavirus.] 3-28-20
Coronavirus. “Yes, We Need Cost-Benefit Analysis.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [A guru punts in the last paragraph but what he says is still worth listening to.] 3-28-20
Coronavirus. “Innovate From Your Couch.” By Andy Kessler. [Downtime has enabled scads of breakthroughs in tech. Now you can join in the next round.] 3-30-20
Coronavirus. Education. “The Virus Makes Homeschoolers of Us All.” By Matthew Hennessey. [Education has long been resistant to change, but it can’t dodge the pandemic.] 3-30-20
Coronavirus. “The Real Cure for Coronavirus.” [Private research and innovation offer promising new leads.] 3-30-20
Coronavirus. “The Road back to Normal: More, Better Testing.” By Brett Gottlieb and Lauren Silvis. [Rapid diagnosis, targeted surveillance and boosting lab supplies will help beat back the coronavirus.] 3-30-20
Coronavirus. “More Promising Data on a Coronavirus Treatment.” By Jeff Colyer. [Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin continue to show results for patients.] 3-30-20
Coronavirus. “The Coronavirus Debt Threat.” By Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. [Developing nations, too, will soon face a health emergency and its economic consequences.] 3-30-20
Coronavirus. “Harvard’s China Virus.” By Wm. McGurn. [Covid-19 isn’t the only ‘stigma’ that has been imposed on Asian-Americans.] 3-31-20
Coronavirus. “U.S. Leadership Will Survive Coronavirus.” By Walter Russell Mead. [Put away the plague carts and wailing for now. Comebacks are America’s specialty.] 3-31-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Models of Uncertainty.” [The range of outcomes is large and the worst case far from likely.] 3-31-20
Coronavirus. “An FDA Breakthrough on Treatment.” [The agency finally approves anti-malarial drugs for Covid-19.] 3-31-20
Coronavirus. “Pelosi Casts the First Virus Stone.” [The Speaker compares Trump to Nero and blames him for deaths.] 3-31-20
Coronavirus. “How to Get America Working Again.” By Robert S. Kaplan and Mickey D. Levy. [Any sustainable strategy against the coronavirus has to balance public health and economics] 3-31-20
Coronavirus. “Save Capitalism From the Cares Act.” By Amit Seru and Luigi Zingales. [The stimulus is the largest step toward a centrally planned economy that America has ever taken.] 3-31-20
Coronavirus. “Federalism And the Lockdown.” [Trump can’t order the country back to normalcy by April 30 or any day. That’s for states to decide.] 3-31-20
Coronavirus. “Should You Get Covid-19?” by Homan W. Jenkins. [Washington could be clearer on whether we are managing the virus or defeating it.] 4-1-20
Coronavirus. “We All Need OCD Now.” By Elias Aboujaoude. [My patient knows all about hand washing and social distancing.] 4-1-20
Coronavirus. Progressives. “Pelosi Pitches a Blue-State Bailout.” [She wants to use virus relief to aid progressive state governments.] 4-1-20
Coronavirus. “Lost at Sea in a Pandemic.” By Orlando Ashford. [Country after country has turned back our cruise ships, stranding thousands of passengers and crew.] 4-1-20
Coronavirus. “Operation Covid Airlift Would Be Medevac in Reverse.” By Mitchell Blutt and Kevin G. Volpp. [If you’re unable to move ventilators to the patients who need them, move the patients to the ventilators.] 4-1-20
Coronavirus. Medicine. “Florida’s Pioneering Medical Reforms.” By Sal Nuzzo and Vittorio Nastasi. [Other states should repeal rules they’ve temporarily relaxed to deal with the coronavirus epidemic.] 4-1-20
Coronavirus. “The Next Coronavirus War.” By Daniel Henninger. [For Trump, Phase 4 is about infrastructure. For Pelosi, it’s about a great battle for power.] 4-2-20
Coronavirus. “A Coronavirus Medal of Freedom.” By Chris Jacobs. [China suppresses Li Wenliang. Trump should honor him.] 4-2-20
Coronavirus. “Got Antibodies?” [Tests that show immunity are crucial to beating Covid-19.] 4-2-20
Coronavirus. “The Sunny Days Before the Virus.” [Last month small businesses were hiring and giving out raises.] 4-2-20
Coronavirus. “Welcome to Uncle Sam Airways.” [The $50 Billion in aid for airlines coms with a real long-term danger.] 4-2-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Lessons From the Asteroid That Didn’t Hit Earth.” By Benny Peiser and Andrew Montford. [Scary projections based on faulty data can put policy makers under pressure to adopt draconian measures.” 4-2-20
Coronavirus. “Pols Face a Coronavirus Test.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Who’s leading and who’s seeking political advantage? Here are the answers.] 4-3-20
Coronavirus. “Berkeley Schools Leave Every Child Behind.” By Steven Davidoff Soloman. [My daughter is being denied an education in the name of ‘equity.’] 4-3-20
Coronavirus. “Testing Is Our Way Out.” By Paul Romer and Rajiv Shah. [Returning to normal is too dangerous. Lockdowns are unsustainable. Let’s save lives without a depression.] 4-3-20
Coronavirus. “Delhi Isn’t Buying Beijing’s Coronavirus Hero Act.” By Sadanand Dhume. [Anti-Chinese sentiment is sweeping the country amid fears that Covid-19 will soon do the same.] 4-3-20
Coronavirus. “From Iraq to new York: Thank Those Who Keep on Truckin’” By James Williams. [I learned in he Army why supply chains are so vital. There are lessons for the current crisis.] 4-3-20
Coronavirus. “Give Hospital workers Hazard Pay.” By Sally Satel. [Extra money would be a tangible show of gratitude and would enable them to care better for everyone.] 4-3-20
Coronavirus. ”A Coronavirus Bull Market in Groceries.” (The weekend Interview with John Catsimatidis by Tunku Varadarajan. [The owner of Manhattan’s largest supermarket chain on panic buying, mask-clad cashiers, and how the pandemic will permanently change his business.] 4-4-20
Coronavirus. “Social Distancing Comes Naturally in South Dakota.” By Faith Bottum. [The pace of life on the prairie is always slow and steady, so few are panicking about the coronavirus.] 4-4-20
Coronavirus. “Rage Against the ‘Bioethicists’ and the Dying of the Light.” By Lee Siegal. [Who are we so eager to have ‘socially responsible’ conversations about how to let Covid patients die?”] 4-4-20
Coronavirus. “The Shutdown Crash Arrives.,” [The government anti-virus strategy is putting millions out of work.] 4-4-20
Coronavirus. “The Navy Captain and the Coronavirus.” [A sad episode raises questions of judgment and chain of command.] 4-4-20
Coronavirus. “Britain Falls Out of Love With China.” 4-4-20
Coronavirus. “New York Is he Epicenter of the World.” By Peggy Noonan. [The hidden gift in this pandemic is that we learn how to prepare for the worse one still to come.] 4-4-20
Coronavirus. “The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order.” By Henry A. Kissinger. [The U.S. must protect its citizens from disease while starting the urgent work of planning for a new epoch.] 4-4-20
Coronavirus. “Was Dr. Strangelove an Epidemiologist?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [A doctor on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis has special permission to tell the truth.] 4-4-20
Coronavirus. “Christian Relief Comes to Central Park.” By Nicole Ault. [New York welcomes Samaritan’s Purse – though the major and others are suspicious.] 4-6-20
Coronavirus. “World Health Disinformation.” [WHO’s bows to Beijing have harmed the global coronavirus response.] 4-6-20
Coronavirus. “Big Bet on Treatments for Coronavirus.” By Scott Gottlieb. [Antivirals and antibody therapies are showing promise. The FDA needs to step up the pace.] 4-6-20
Coronavirus. “The Economy Will Survive the Coronavirus.” By Vernon L. Smith. [Don’t despair. Even amid the doom and gloom there are many things to be glad about.] 4-6-20
Coronavirus. “After the Cares Act, Hospitals and Businesses Need Sustained Support.” By Glenn Hubbard. [It isn’t too late for Congress to help keep more workers on payroll and shore up state health-care capacity.] 4-6-20
Coronavirus. Supreme Court. “Supreme Court On Hold.” 4-6-20
Coronavirus. “How We Get Our Lives Back.” By Wm. McGurn. [Partial reopening of the economy wouldn’t be perfect. But it’d be a huge step forward.] 4-7-20
Coronavirus. “The Coronavirus Threat South of the Border.” By Walter Russell Mead. [Latin America isn’t ready for Covid-19. Infected migrants could flee to the U.S. ] 4-7-20
Coronavirus. “New York’s Kings of Clean.” By Tunku Varandarajan. [Garbagemen are finally getting the respect they deserve.] 4-7-20
Coronavirus. “Congress’s Small-Business Ventilator.” [Trying to pass out $350 billion in days or weeks is harder than it sounds.] 4-7-20
Coronavirus. “Yanks for Boris Johnson. [Americans are praying for the British PM as he battles ovis-19.] 4-7-20
Coronavirus. Education. “The Teacher’s Union Ate My Homework.” [School districts fear lawsuits if hey grade remote assignments.] 4-7-20
Coronavirus. “Joseph I’s Coronavirus Solution.” By A. Wess Mitchell and Charles Ingrao. [Before modern medicine, the Hapsburg monarchy kept epidemics at bay for more than 150 years.] 4-7-20
Coronavirus. Fed. “The Fed’s new Mission To Save the Economy.” By Gary Cohn and Glenn Hutchins. [The central bank’s lending programs will need top-shelf staff and rigorous disclosure.] 4-7-20
Coronavirus. “Trump Is Not the Virus.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Democrats might win if they recognize their role in he distrust-of-government epidemic.] 4-8-20
Coronavirus. “The Art of Coronavirus Modeling. [The Murray model now shows less dire forecasts for much of the U.S.] 4-8-20
Coronavirus. “Prohibition Makes a Comeback.” 4-8-20
Coronavirus. ”Wisconsin’s Election Confusion.” [Decisions to alter voting nee to follow the law, even in a pandemic.] 4-8-20
Coronavirus. “The World Is Watching How America Handles covid-19.” By Robert B. Zoellick. [The Trump administration has failed to convey an impression of strong international leadership.] (Mr. Zoellick is a former World Bank President, U.S. trade representative, deputy secretary of state under Pres. George W. Bush, and Goldman Sachs executive.) 4-8-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Caught Us Napping.” By Daniel Henninger. [The surgeon general was right: This is our Pearl Harbor.] 4-9-20
Coronavirus. “Clinton and Bush Prepared for Pandemics.” By Karl Rove. [Their legacy includes the National Strategic Stockpiled and other important tools.] 4-9-20
Coronavirus. “Trump’s Waste Briefings.” [The sessions have become a boring show of President vs. the press.] 4-9-20
Coronavirus. “Austria Will Start to Reopen Next Week.” By Barbara Kolm. [Smaller stores return April 14, larg4er ones May 1. Restaurants and hotels will wait until mid-May.] 4-9-20
Coronavirus. “Lost in Beijing: The Story of the WHO.” By Lanhee J. Chen. [China broke the World Health Organization. The U.S. has to fix it or leave and start its own group.] 4-9-20
Coronavirus. “Keep Coronavirus in Human Perspective.” By Myron Magnet. [Death tolls don’t capture the scale of the suffering. 4-10-20
Coronavirus. “All The President’s Ratings.” [The Commander in Chief responds to our editorial.] 4-10-20
Coronavirus. “Paycheck Protection Rejection.” [Democrats block a $250 billion refill of needed business loans.] 4-10-20
Coronavirus. “Insurers Can’t Cover Everything.” By Spike Lipkin. [But they’re uniquely suited to help distribute relief funds for businesses affected by coronavirus.] 4-10-20
Coronavirus. “Lockdowns Won’t Stop the Spread.” By Joseph A. Ladapo. [Stopping Covid-19 and protecting the economy are one and the same, but it’s too late to do either.] 4-10-20
Coronavirus. “A Coronavirus Reckoning for the left.” By Joseph C. Sternberg. [Progressives world-wide disdain workers and deride Sweden’s moderate liberals for resisting a lock-down.] 4-10-20
Coronavirus. “They Developed Their Coronavirus Vaccine in Salk’s Shadow.” By Salena Zito. [Two Pitt scientists have come up with a possible inoculation that you’d apply like a Band-Aid.] 4-11-20
Coronavirus. “Politicizing Coronavirus Science.” 4-11-20
Coronavirus. “A Holy Week Amid a National Tribulation.” By Peggy Noonan. [‘Hardship generally makes people stronger,’ a social psychologist observes. What will we learn?] 4-11-20
Coronavirus. “Your Coronavirus Crib Sheet.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [How we got here, where we’re going, and the lockdown Catch-22 we need to confront.] 4-11-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Shatters Complacency.” By Andy Kessler. [The pandemic has awakened us from climate nightmares and socialist dreams.] 4-13-20
Coronavirus. “It’s Still America, Virus or Not.” [Draconian orders will undermine support for social distancing.] 4-13-20
Coronavirus. “3M Isn’t a Coronavirus Villain.” [If the U.S. blocks medical exports, so will other countries.] 4-13-20
Coronavirus. “The Employer Will Test You Now.” By Scott Gottlieb and Lauren Silvis. [Reopening the economy will depend on companies diagnosing coronavirus cases in the workplace.] 4-13-20
Coronavirus. “We Need Politicians in a Pandemic.” By George Gilder. [The conceit that everyone must bow to ‘science” is not only undemocratic but dangerous in its own right.] 4-13-20
Coronavirus. “China Still Misleads the World.” By Walter Russell Mead. [A truthful account of the virus’s progress there would help us know what to expect.] 4-13-20
Coronavirus. “Bernie Sanders and Covid Capitalism.” By Wm. McGurn. [His perverse morality sees only greed as business takes on the coronavirus.] 4-14-20
Coronavirus. “Targeting Tony Fauci.” 4-14-20
Coronavirus. “The Young Will Reopen America.” By Bill Cassidy. [Widespread, frequent antibody testing will help them know when they can hug grandma again.] 4-14-20
Coronavirus. “How to Prepare for the Next Pandemic.” By Rahm Emanuel. [Many federal agencies are responsible for containing Covid-19 – which means none are accountable.] 4-14-200
Coronavirus. “Sweden Is a Viral Punching Bag.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [How the progressive utopia became an easy target for the no-tradeoffs crowd.] 4-15-20
Coronavirus. Economy. “More ‘Stimulus’ Would Crush the Recovery.” By Phil Gramm and Michael Solon. [Federal borrowing this year is set to pass 20% of GDP. That will raise costs across the private economy.] 4-15-20
Coronavirus. “ We Have a Covid Test – Let Us Use It.” By Jack W. Lipton and Caryl E. Sortwell. [Suspend regulations that prevent research labs from conducting diagnostic checks.] 4-16-20
Coronavirus. “A Reckoning for the WHO.” [trump’s funding pause may finally get the U.N. agency’s attention.] 4-16-20
Coronavirus. “Presidential Power Is Limited but Vast.” By David B Rivkin Jr. an Lee A. Casey. [Trump can’t fully reopen the economy on his own authority. But he can go a long way in that direction.] 4-16-20
Coronavirus. “Why We Say ‘No hanks” to a Cares Act Loan.” By Petr Goettler and Robert Levy. [Taking government money would undermine the principles that underlie Cato’s mission.] 4-16-20
Coronavirus. “Leave No American Behind.” By Michael R. Pompeo [The State Department has found ways to bring more than 62,000 U.S. citizens home from overseas.] 4-16-20
Coronavirus. “Moving the Shutdown Goal Posts.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Liberals try to set Trump up to take the blame for any further coronavirus deaths. 4-17-20
Coronavirus. “No More Paycheck Protection.” [The loan fund has run dry, and Democrats are blocking a refill.] 4-17-20
Coronavirus. “Vitamin D and Covid Disparities.” by Vatsal Thakkar. [Supplements may promote immunity, especially in people with darker skin.] 4-17-20
Coronavirus. “Trump Rewrites the Book on Emergencies.” By Christopher Demuth. [For the first time in U.S. history, an administration is responding to a crisis with deregulation and decentralization.] 4-18-20
Coronavirus. “Michigan’s Draconian Lockdown Provokes a Backlash.” By John J. Miller. [Gov. Whitmer’s stay at-home order restricts lawn mowing, touchpad carwashes and boating.] 4-18-20
Coronavirus. “Trump’s Recovery Guidelines.” [More testing is needed, but the direction toward reopening is right.] 4-18-20
Coronavirus. “Hold Firm on PPP, Mr. Trump.” [More aid to states will make governors less likely to reopen soon.] 4-18-20
Coronavirus. “New Data Suggest the Coronavirus Isn’t as Deadly as We Thought.” By Andrew Bogan. [A study finds 50 to 85 times as many infections as known cases – meaning a far lower fatality rate.] 4-18-20
Coronavirus. “Needed: A Little Give and a Lot of Integrity.” By Peggy Noonan. [In this pandemic, some local officials have been too officious, and federal ones too deceptive.] 4-18-20
Coronavirus. “Sending Hospitals into Bankruptcy.” [The lockdowns are doing great unintended harm to medical providers.] 4-20-20
Coronavirus. “The Coronavirus Cops.” 4-20-20
Coronavirus. “Keep Workers Healthy on the Job.” By Scott Gottlieb and Stephen Ostroff. [Employers can stagger breaks, deep-clean surfaces, limit meetings and offer on-site testing.] 4-20-20
Coronavirus. “Suspend the Payroll Tax.” By Steve Forbes an Arthur Laffer. 4-20-20
Coronavirus. “War-Gaming The Next Pandemic.” By Frank Keating. [What I learned from the Dark Winter simulation and the 1995 Oklahoma City terrorist bombing.] 4-20-20
Coronavirus. “The Lockdown Rebellion.” By Wm. McGurn. [Ordinary Americans protesting to reopen the economy face only contempt from elites.] 4-21-20
Coronavirus. “The Coronavirus Hits he Global South.” By Walter Russell Mead. [Only economic growth can lift incomes and generate resilience after the pandemic.] 4-21-20
Coronavirus. “PPP Loan Terms Amount to Legalized Fraud.” By Pete Vegas. [Healthy companies can easily exploit aid meant for those that had to shut down.] 4-21-20
Coronavirus. “’Elective’ Surgery Saves Lives.” By Bob Kerry. [Temporary bans prevent treatment for cancer, heart disease, cataracts and other serious ailments.] 4-21-20
Coronavirus. “Seven Fateful Coronavirus Decisions.” By Robert O’Brien. [President Trump acted with dispatch, to keep Americans safe, even when it was unpopular.] 4-21-20
Coronavirus. “Americans Need Forbearance, not More Stimulus.” By Peter J. Wallison. [Congress and the Fed should make it possible to pay off obligations later, at a special interest rate.] 4-21-20
Coronavirus. “Stocking Shelves in Covid-19 America.” By Daniel Lee. [Retail and grocery workers persevere, wondering which is worse: disease or economic devastation?] 4-21-20
Coronavirus. “China’s Coronavirus Culpability.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Beijing’s priority was regime survival but pandemics are mainly natural disasters.] 4-22-20
Coronavirus. “Our Restaurants Can’t Reopen Until August.” By Kurt Hoffman. [Employees refuse to return to work as long as they’re getting an extra $600 per week.] 4-22-20
Coronavirus. “Trump’s Immigration Distraction.” [There’s no economic or health case for blocking all immigrants.] 4-22-20
Coronavirus. “The Shutdown Bill Grows.” [Congress rolls out $484 billion more for small business and hospitals] 4-22-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus and the Laboratories in Wuhan.” By Tom Cotton. [Their researchers travel to caves across China, where they capture live bats to study viruses.] 4-22-20
Coronavirus. “What Won’t Cure Corona: Lawsuits.” By Evan G. Greenberg. [Businesses need protection from litigation threats, an insurers can’t pick up the tab for the pandemic.] 4-22-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Opportunism on Both Sides of the Aisle.” By Jason L. Riley. [Trump is using the crisis to restrict immigration, while Bill de Blasio is using it to empty the jails.] 4-22-20
Coronavirus. “How We’ll Live With Coronavirus.” By Daniel Henninger. [Millions of years of human behavior are going to overwhelm the state lockdowns.] 4-23-20
Coronavirus. “Bail Out he States?” [Any more federal aid should come with very strict conditions.] 4-23-20
Coronavirus. “Paying Americans Not to Work.” [Four GOP Senators were right about the harm from rich UI benefits.] 4-23-20
Coronavirus. “A Covid Vaccine: Faster, Please.” By Henry J. Miller. {Developing an inoculation is a slow and uncertain process. There are ways to make it more efficient.] 4-23-20
Coronavirus. “PPP Loan Forgiveness Needs Limits.” By Ron Johnson [The program wasn’t meant to provide free money to companies that aren’t affected by coronavirus.] 4-23-20
Coronavirus. “Congress’s Coronavirus Mess.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [A pandemic doesn’t excuse lawmakers from performing their most basic duties.] 4-24-20
Coronavirus. “Stopping a Lawsuit Epidemic.” [Trial lawyers are massing to loot medical providers and employers in response to Covid-19] 4-24-20
Coronavirus. “Big Oil to the Rescue.” [Look whose product ae crucial for fighting off the coronavirus.] 4-24-20
Coronavirus. “Maybe the Experts Were Right About Covid-19 the First Time.” By Joseph c. Sternberg. [They originally wanted herd immunity, realizing lockdowns would incur the disasters we’re seeing.] 4-24-20
Coronavirus. “The Coronavirus Could Imperil Putin’s Presidency.” By Leon Aron. [Russia entered he crisis with a stagnant economy, and its oil-price war with the Saudis isn‘t helping.] 4-24-20
Coronavirus. “The Bearer of Good Coronavirus News.” (The Weekend Interview with John Ioannidis by Allysia Finley.) [A leading scientist finds himself under attack for questioning the prevailing wisdom about lockdowns.] 4-25-20
Coronavirus. “Piling on Georgia’s Governor.” [Trump joins the press corps and Democrats in bashing Brian Kemp.] 4-25-20
Coronavirus. “What Comes After the Covid Storm?” by Peggy Noonan. [We’ll eventually get to a safe harbor, but we’ll find we’re a changed country.] 4-25-20
Coronavirus. “The Lockdowns Were the Black Swan.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [How and why we went from ‘flatten the curve’ to choosing between our economy and the virus.] 4-25-20
Coronavirus. “Going to School on the Coronavirus.” by Tunku Varadarajan. [A Stanford medical student asked for a course on the subject. She got it in days.] 4-27-20
Coronavirus. “America Needs to Win the Vaccine Race.” By Scott Gotlieb. [Other countries might not be quick to share. Time to speed up trials and ramp up manufacturing scale.] 4-27-20
Coronavirus. “Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No.” by T.J. Rodgers. [The speed with which officials shuttered the economy appears not to be a factor in Covid deaths.] 4-27-20
Coronavirus. “Don’t Reward States for Bad Decisions.” By Rick Scott. [There’s good reason Florida doesn’t need a bailout, while Illinois and New York do.] 4-28-20
Coronavirus. “Ultraviolet Light Takes Political Heat.” By Josh Disbrow. [Trump’s musings prompt social media censorship of information about an experimental treatment.] 4-28-20
Coronavirus. “How Louisiana Reopened After Hurricane Katrina.” By Emiy Chamlee-Wright. [Lesson for the pandemic: Once government occupies civil society, it will t4en to overstay its welcome.]4-28-20
Coronavirus. “The Cares Act Blame Gam Begins.” By Bob McGahn. [Politicians, who wrote the law, are heaping scorn on banks and businesses for following it.] 4-28-20
Coronavirus. “You Must Wear a Mask – Or You May Not.” By Randy Maniloff. [Some states suspend anti-Klan laws to combat coronavirus.] 4-29-20
Coronavirus. “The Coming GOP Spending Split.” [Trump risks dividing his party in the Senate with another $1 trillion Bill.] 4-29-20
Coronavirus. “Hawaii Penalizes the Helpers.” 4-29-20
Coronavirus. “Germany’s RO Virus Experiment.” 4-29-20
Coronavirus. “Borrower Beware: Cares Loans Carry a Steep cost.” By Paul S. Atkins. [They invite investigations, reputation costs, and maybe erven social and environmental measures.] 4-29-20
Coronavirus. “That Trump Lysol Moment.” By Daniel Henninger. [The dispute between ‘proven’ therapies and taking risks for people at death’s door.] 4-30-20
Coronavirus. “Trump’s Beef Stakes.” [He uses he defense production Act to prevent a food shortage.] 4-30-20
Coronavirus. “The Looming Civil-Liberties Battle.” By Joseph A. Ladapo. [The stage is set for a post-shutdown showdown between personal from and public health.] 4-30-20
Coronavirus. “Unmasking the Vice President.” By Matthew Hennessey. [You may disapprove of the barefaced. But this is America.] 5-1-20
Coronavirus. “De Blasio’s ‘Message’ to Jews.” By Jeff Ballabon and Mark Goldfeder. [Other demographic groups get only sympathy when hit especially hard by the coronavirus pandemic.] 5-1-20
Coronavirus. “Limit Governors’ Emergency Powers.” By Dan McConchie. [Residents an business owners want lockdown relief, but few legislatures have any way to intervene.] 5-1-20
Coronavirus. “What Would You Risk for a Faster Cure?” (The Weekend Interview with Michael Milken by Mene Ukueberuwa.) [The billionaire former financier is boosting Covid treatments. No one knows which will work, but saving lives and the economy will require a mighty gamble.] 5-2-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Forces Teachers to learn a Different Tune.” [An elementary school music teacher fries to navigate digital platforms while playing the ukulele.] 5-2-20
Coronavirus. California. “The Road to Surfdom.” By Allysia Finley. 5-2-20
Coronavirus. “Drug Innovation to the Rescue.” [Profits from much-maligned Sovaldi helped Gilead’s research.] 5-2-20
Coronavirus. “The Iron Lady and the Coronavirus Age.” By Peggy Noonan. [Like Thatcher, we’ll need to achieve much out of the ordinary. Love of country is the place to start.] 5-2-20
Coronavirus. “Remdesivir Affirms the American Way.” By John F. Cogan and George P. Shultz. [Gilead Sciences failed for years to prove its efficacy, but patent law an markets helped it to persevere.] 5-2-20
Coronavirus. “Government Punts to Business.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Spontaneous deregulation is happening as politicians turn to the public to fix he lockdown mess.] 5-2-20
Coronavirus. “How A.I. Is Attacking the Virus.” By Andy Kessler. [Infection models will improve exponentially as public databases amass more variables.] 5-4-20
Coronavirus. “The Rent Collector’s Dilemma.” By Bert Stratton. [The butcher, barber an bartender are all struggling. So am I.] 5-4-20
Coronavirus. “Grading the State Virus Response.” [Rating governors on how they’ve handled lockdowns an reopening.] 5-4-20
Coronavirus. “The Cruel Covid ‘New Normal.’” By Scott Gottlieb. [The virus continues o spread. What’s needed now: rapid antigen tests like the one for flu or strep.] 5-4-20
Coronavirus. “Deregulate for the Coronavirus Recovery.” By Adam J. White. [The office of information and Regulatory Affairs should think hard about which rules to enforce.] 5-4-20
Coronavirus. “Pelosi’s Coronavirus Power Grab.” By Bradley Byrne. [Representatives can’t do our jobs when we’re stuck at home. So the speaker is writing the laws herself.’] 5-4-20
Coronavirus. “Weighing Sweden’s Coronavirus Model.” [The left rushes to condemn an experiment that’s far from over.] 5-5-20
Coronavirus. “Personal Responsibility and Covid-19.” By Robert L. Woodson Sr. [The race-grievance industry denounces the surgeon general for his message to black America.] 5-5-20
Coronavirus. “Why You Can’t Find Rubbing alcohol.” [The U.S. now has vast surpluses of a sanitizing liquid that consumers aren’t allowed to buy.] 5-5-20
Coronavirus. “Lockdowns and Double Standards.” [London’s and Double Standards.” [London’s shelter-in-place guru is the latest to break his own rules.] 5-6-20
Coronavirus. “California’s Lockdown Liberation.” [Gavin Newsom accedes to growing local pressure to reopen.] 5-6-20
Coronavirus. “The Covid Recovery Comes Down to Engineering.” by Guru Madhaven. [Don’t believe it? Look at the logistics required for the broadband everyone teleworking enjoys.] 5-6-20
Coronavirus. “A Covid-Era Wedding, Small but Not Intimate.” By Lou Weiss. 5-6-20
Coronavirus. “Stay Shut Down or We’ll Sue.” [A plague of lawsuits hangs over the recovery without new protection.] 5-7-20
Coronavirus. “The Wuhan Lab Theory.” [If China Covered up, as Trump and Pompeo say, release the evidence.] 5-7-20
Coronavirus. “The Conference Call to Cure Covid-19.” By Safi Bahcall.” [Research leaders inside pharmaceutical companies are cooperating, but they need a figurehead.] 5-7-20
Coronavirus. “Cuomo to Coronavirus Volunteers: Pay Up.” By Steve Malanga. 5-8-20
Coronavirus. “Portland’s Summer Fridays.” 5-8-20 [To take Fridays off.]
Coronavirus. “Containing China Will Be Complicated.” By Eldridge Colby and A. Wess Mitchell. [Expect Beijing to grow more assertive as the West rethinks its economic attachments after Covid.] 5-8-20
Coronavirus. “The Coronavirus and Project Fear 3.0.” by Joseph C. Sternberg. [We’ve seen these scare tactics before, in both the campaigns against Brexit and against Trump.] 5-8-20
Coronavirus. “A Better Alternative to State Bankruptcy or Default.” By John S. Baker Jr. and Robert T. Miller. [Bond contracts that waive sovereign immunity can provide cash and some much-needed discipline.] 5-8-20
Coronavirus. “The Bean Counter’s Guide to Social Distancing and Personal Freedom.” By Terry Wanzek. [As lockdowns are lifted, officials should leave people alone to make safe choices about how to act.] 5-9-20
Coronavirus. “The Economic Lockdown Catastrophe.” [The worst jobs report in history shows why the economy must reopen.] 5-9-20
Coronavirus. “The WHO and Taiwan.” [How the U.N. agency can begin to repair its tattered reputation.] 5-9-20
Coronavirus. “Americans Need Hope as Well as Safety.” By Peggy Noonan. [The economic crash has deadly consequences of its own. The bias now should be toward a return to life.] 5-9-20
Coronavirus. “Antibody Knowledge Can Be Power.” By Scott Gottlieb. [Reliable tests are replacing questionable ones from China. The results can help Americans judge risk.] 5-11-20
Coronavirus. “Remember the a la Mode.” By Wm. McGurn. [A Texas mom is treated like a criminal for reopening her salon in the lockdown.” 5-12-20
Coronavirus. “Since Work Is Rare, It’s Time to Share.” By Katharine Abraham and Susan N. Houseman. [Laid-off employees can return part-time and receive benefits.] 5-12-20
Coronavirus “Caesar, God and the Lockdowns.” [A federal court ruling on religious liberty is a lesson to governors.] 5-12-20
Coronavirus. “Amazon’s Pandemic Success Story.” By Sean Higgins. [Progressives and their union allies trash the company, but it keeps delivering and hiring.] 5-12-20
Coronavirus. “The Wayward Hunt for Stimulus Fraud.” By Ankush Khardori. [The Justice Department is set to punish good-faith loan-application errors but overlook a Coronavirus wave of scams.] 5-12-20
Coronavirus. “Medical Lockdown Will Cause a Disease Surge.” By Jeff LeBenger and Mike Meyer. [Patients who are sick with conditions other than Covid aren’t seeking screening and treatment.] 5-12-20
Coronavirus. “If You Were Born in 1960, You Pay Extra for Covid-19.” By Andrew Biggs. [A quirk in how Social Security is calculated will cost 60-year-olds thousands a year.] 5-12-20
Coronavirus. “Elon Musk Is Our New ACLU.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The most sweeping restrictions on liberty ever seen deserve to be legally scrutinized.] 5-13-20
Coronavirus. “Elon Musk Isn’t Taking It Anymore.” 5-13-20
Coronavirus. “In Lockdown, Pot and Booze Are Bad News.” By Erica Komisar. [Pennsylvania closed liquor stores. Other states should consider similar moves.] 5-13-20
Coronavirus. “Shutdowns Sow Seeds of Starvation.” By Bret Schundler. 5-13-20
Coronavirus. “After Covid, Government Will Have to Shrink.” By Steven Harper. [Leftists see an opportunity in the crisis, but today’s big spending will limit their options tomorrow.] 5-13-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Demands a Privacy Law.” By Christine Wilson. [Silicon Valley’s role in contact tracing social distancing enforcement has Americans worried.] 5-14-20
Coronavirus. “A Covid Drug to Help Fight the Storm.” By Peggy Wehmeyer. [A treatment for multiple sclerosis could also be used to suppress a deadly reaction in patients.] 5-14-20
Coronavirus. “Germany’s New Coronavirus Thinking.´ [Berlin tolerates more Covid-19 spread for the sake of reopening.] 5-15-20
Coronavirus. “The NYSE Will Reopen the Trading Floor.” By Stacey Cunningham. [I hear every day from companies eager to return. We’ll do so this month, slowly and carefully.] 5-15-20
Coronavirus. “On Coronavirus Debt, Heed the Wisdom of Scarlett O’Hara.” By Alan S. Blinder. [‘I won’t think about that now. I’ll think about that tomorrow.’ The crisis is today’s urgent priority.] 5-15-20
Coronavirus. “The Lockdown Skeptic They Couldn’t Silence.” (The Weekend Interview with Aaron Ginn by Allysia Finley). [Targeted for censorship in March, he’s becoming an influential voice in cities, states and Washington.] 5-16-20
Coronavirus. “How WHO Lost Its Way.” [The U.N. agency was more effective when its mandate was limited.] 5-16-20
Coronavirus. “Scenes From the Class Struggle in Lockdown.” By Peggy Noonan. [Those who are anxious to open up the economy have led harder lives than those holding out for safety.] 5-16-20
Coronavirus. “Cut Through the Fog of Covid War.” By Scott Gottlieb. [The CDC needs to streamline and publish clinical data to help doctors on the front lines.] 5-18-20
Coronavirus. “Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine.” [The biotech firm says its Phase I trial shows promising results.] 5-19-20
Coronavirus. “Chinese Lockdown Redux.” [Shutdowns haven’t eliminated the virus, as new breakouts strike.] 5-19-20
Coronavirus. “Let Children Go to Summer School.” By Robert C. Hamilton. [Reopening classrooms brings risks. But they can be mitigated, and isolation costs kids far more dearly.] 5-19-20
Coronavirus. “Why Does Reopening Polarize Us?” By Dan Crenshaw. [The divide over lockdowns reflects deeper differences in attitudes about risk, liberty and morality.] 5-19-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus and Policy Chaos.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Western rights and freedoms now prove a strength in adapting to the pandemic.] 5-20-20
Coronavirus. “It’s Deadly to Fear the Emergency Room. “ by Yves Duroseau. [‘Shelter in place doesn’t apply if you’re having a heart attack.] 5-20-20
Coronavirus. “The Covid-19 Deregulation.” [Trump looks to make waivers permanent to help the recovery.] 5-20-20
Coronavirus. “A Political Assault on Antibody Tests.” By Manish Butte and Andrew Bogan. [If positive test doesn’t indicate immunity, how in the world did patients ever recover from infection.?] 5-20-20
Coronavirus. “Prepare Nursing Homes for the Net Covid Wave.” By Betsy McCaughey. [The most effective way to save lives would be to improve infection control in assisted-living facilities.] 5-20-20
Coronavirus. “Speakeasies And Social Distancing.” By Paul H. Robinson. [Prohibition’s lesson: When laws are too heavy-handed, it can promote disrespect for the law in general.] 5-20-20
Coronavirus. “Elon Musk’s ‘Final Straw.’” By Daniel Henninger. [Pelosi offers not a bailout but a bail-in, a nationalization of blue-state spending.] 5-21-20
Coronavirus. “The Evidence on Kids and Covid.” [Rare serious cases bear watching, but overall risk appears to be low.] 5-21-20
Coronavirus. “The First Amendment Faithful.” [“…hard to see how …the Mall of America can be allowed to reopen while churches must keep their doors closed…”] 5-21-20
Coronavirus. “Lawsuits Needn’t Block Recovery.” By J. Michael Luttig and David B. Rivkin Jr. [Congress has the power to limit Covid liability while regulators develop rules to control contagion.] 5-21-20
Coronavirus. “Freedom and Sweden’s Constitution.” By Lars jonung and Steve H. Hanke. [The country’s laissez-faire response to the Covid pandemic had deep roots in both culture and law.] 5-21-20
Coronavirus. “How to Keep Workers Off the Job.” [More evidence that the $600 jobless benefit will slow the recovery.] 5-22-20
Coronavirus. “The Crucial Reopening Question.” By Joseph A. Ladapo. [Organizations need a plan for how to react when a customer or employee tests positive for Covid-19.] 5-22-20
Coronavirus. “Three Economic Comorbidities for Covid-19.” By Joseph C. Sternberg. [How much devastation is self-inflicted, not caused directly by the virus? Voters are right to wonder.] 5-22-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus and the Chernobyl Analogy.” (The Weekend Interview with Edward Luttwak by Adam O’Neal.) [He wrote the book on regime change, and he sees parallels between China’s pandemic response and the Soviet Union’s late years.] 5-23-20
Coronavirus. “The Blue State Lockdown Blues.” [The slow reopening in liberal states will hurt the national recovery.] 5-26-20
Coronavirus. “After We Defeat the Virus.” [Another spending blowout will burn the recovery for years.] 5-27-20
Coronavirus. “After the Covid Apolcalypse.” By Daniel Henninger. [Lesson 1.: The u.S. is willing to shut down for three months, but that’s about it.] 5-28-20
Coronavirus. “When Covid ‘Science’ Is a Smokescreen.” By Todd Myers. [Like many politicians, Washington’s Jay Inslee trusts the numbers only when they serve his ends.] 5-28-20
Coronavirus. “Buildings Beef Up Security in the Coronavirus Age.” By Jeffrey C. Friedman. [You’ll need to reveal more about your health than you used to if you want to get past the front desk.] 5-28-20
Coronavirus. “The Covid Political Earthquake.” By Josh Holmes. [Subsidies will soon end. Americans will then feel the economic pain and revolt.] 5-29-20
Coronavirus. “A False Dilemma Fuels the Lockdown Wars.” By John Delaney. [Both sides are dug in on extreme positions, but the facts say it’s time to reopen, carefully.] 5-29-20
Coronavirus. “The Challenge of Contact Tracing in America.” By Peggy Noonan. [We’re a nation of rebels bitterly divided. Making this work will require sensitivity and tact.] 5-30-20
Coronavirus. “The Overlooked Disparity: Coronavirus Kills Mostly Men.” By Daniel Akst. [In the U.S., 54% of those killed by the virus are male. For younger patients the disparity is greater.] 5-30-20
Coronavirus. “Lockdowns vs. the Vulnerable.” By Homan W. Jenkins, Jr. [A strategy that ignores trade-offs and the dimension of time badly served Covid victims.] 5-30-20
Coronavirus. “A Fast Covid Vaccine, Without Cutting Corners.” By Luciana Borio and Scott Gottlieb. [Rigorous testing will ensure that Americans can trust the shot they take will be safe and effective.] 6-1-20
Coronavirus. “How to Fix the Paycheck Protection Program.” By Ron Johnson. [Companies are getting aid they don’t need, or failing to get aid they do. There’s still a chance for reform.] 6-1-20
Coronavirus. “The Protest That Ended Social Distancing.” By Michael Tracey. [Newark’s mayor spoke at a rally that was peaceful but flouted Covid rules.] 6-2-20
Coronavirus. “The Lancet’s Politicized Science on Antimalarial Drugs.” By Allysia Finley. [A new study suggests a treatment Trump touted is harmful. Let’s take a closer look at the data.] 6-2-20
Coronavirus. “Nursing Homes, Covid and Medicaid.” By Stephen A. Moses and Brian C. Blasé. [How a program for the poor pushes Americans into assisted living and harms the quality of care.] 6-2-20
Coronavirus. “Will lawyers Act With Honor After Covid?” by Joel Webber. [My profession should support safe-harbor rules, not capitalize on uncertainty.] 6-3-20
Coronavirus. “The Measure of New York’s Covid Devastation.” By Robert Rosenkranz. [Raw numbers don’t tell the whole story. A new study looks at ‘excess deaths.’] 6-3-20
Coronavirus. “Politicians Serve Orwellian Tennis Rules.” By Dave Seminara. [The few open courts have patronizing regulation in place with little real relation to public health.] 6-3-20
Coronavirus. “The Lancet, HCL, and Trump.” [A widely promoted study may be based on questionable data.] 6-4-20
Coronavirus. “My Benevolent Incarceration in a New Jersey Senior Home.” By Jackson Tohy. [Extreme precautions are justified, but aren’t we at greater risk from the staff than the other residents?] 6-6-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Good News.” [Science and medical trial and error are saving more patients.] 6-8-20
Coronavirus. “How Businesses Can Keep Employees Safe From Coronavirus.” By Scott Gottlieb and Lauren Silvis. [Companies can deploy routine testing and tools like pooling samples to detect outbreaks.] 6-8-20
Coronavirus. “Doctors for Lockdown Discrimination.” [“…public-health progressives are offering a rationalization…”] 6-8-20
Coronavirus. “Covid Made Me Give Up Cash.” By Allan Ripp. [I’ve always had a wad of bills in my pocket – but now I’m careful.] 6-9-20
Coronavirus. “The Shutdown Budget.” [The federal deficit for the fiscal year reaches $1.9 trillion.] 6-9-20
Coronavirus. “The Unequal American City.” By Michael J. Petrilli. [The hollowing out of the middle class is largely a metropolitan phenomenon, but no one fix will help all.] 6-9-20
Coronavirus. “When Wisconsin’s Lockdown Ended.” [A study finds ‘no evidence’ that it led to Covid-19 outbreaks.] 6-11-20
Coronavirus. “The Second Wave Covid Scare.” [The numbers are better than the headlines, and reopening is necessary.] 6-12-20
Coronavirus. “The Covid Age Penalty.” [New patient data offers a guide to opening while protecting seniors.] 6-13-20
Coronavirus. “Get Ready for the Second Coronavirus Wave.” By Peggy Noonan. [Americans need to be prepared, and leaders need to restore their credibility.] 6-13-20
Coronavirus. “Wind, Fire and the Coronavirus.” [PG&E turns to diesel for backup power after greens shunned gas.] 6-15-20
Coronavirus. “Lockdowns Hit Minority Businesses.” 6-15-20
Coronavirus. “New Rules for Covid Summer: Be Flexible and Vigilant.” By Scott Gottlieb and Yuval Levin. [The public is divided. Authorities need to build confidence without wearing out goodwill.] 6-15-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus and the Climate.” By Walter Russell Mead. [The pandemic shows the limits of what countries will endure to reduce emissions.] 6-16-20
Coronavirus. “The Data Are In: It’s Time for Major Reopening.” By David R. Henderson and Jonathan Lipow. [Four new analyses of actual results show how the initial projections overestimated the value of lockdowns.] 6-16-20
Coronavirus. “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave.” By Mike Pence. [With testing, treatments and vaccine trials ramping up, we are far better off than the media report.] 6-17-20
Coronavirus. “What Covid Models Get Wrong.” [Focus on the burden on hospitals, not on the oft-mistaken forecasts.] 6-18-20
Coronavirus. “Reopen the Economy, More Open Than Ever.” By Anders Fogh Rasmussen. [For Western democracies to flourish, they must first reject statism as the model for post-Covid governance.] 6-18-20
Coronavirus. “All Hail the Return of TV sports.” By Tunku Varadarajan. [European soccer and Saturday’s Belmont Stakes are welcome distractions from Covid gloom.] 6-18-20
Coronavirus. “Ned Lamont Says the Unspeakable” [The Democrat opposes extending the $600 federal jobless benefit.] 6-19-20
Coronavirus. “Lockdown States and the Jobless.” [Job gains are much greater in states that have reopened faster.] 6-22-20
Coronavirus. “Rules for Clinical Trials in a Pandemic.” By Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan. [A study out of Britain shows how to learn more, faster about promising Covid-19 treatments.] 6-22-20
Coronavirus. “Covid Was a Punch in the Mouth.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [New Zealand and the U.S. are opposites, but neither had a plan for the pandemic.] 6-24-20
Coronavirus. “News From the Non-Lockdown States.” 6-24-20
Coronavirus. “Coping With Covid-19.” [Flare-ups are inevitable but new lockdowns aren’t the answer.] 6-25-20
Coronavirus. “A Wolf in Emergency Clothing.” By Allen C. Guelzo. [Pennsylvania’s governor is among many who have used nearly unchecked power to enforce maximal lockdowns.] 6-26-20
Coronavirus. “Cuomo’s Covid Chutzpah.” [Texas and Florida have a long way to go to match New York’s virus record.] 6-27-20
Coronavirus. “Covid Comparisons, Europe and U.S.” [The America-is-a-failure reporting has a heavy dose of partisanship.] 6-29-20
Coronavirus. “The GOP’s Lampoon Vacation.” [A tax credit for getting away from it all – or merely to the Hamptons.] 6-30-20
Coronavirus. “Capitalism After the Coronavirus.” By Al Gore and David Blood. [The pandemic provides an opportunity to build a resilient, healthy, fair and zero-carbon economy.] 6-30-20
Coronavirus. “Angela Merkel’s Viral Moment.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Donald Trump’s odds would be better now if he’d leveled with voters about Covid.] 7-1–20
Coronavirus. “Will Unions Let Schools Reopen?” by Daniel DiSalvo. [Emboldened by successful strikes in 2018 and 2019, they may attempt to hold the economy hostage.] 6-30-20
Coronavirus. “A Corona Commission for New York.” By Bill Hammond. [Civil -society groups should join to draw lessons from the city’s and sate’s failings.] 7-1–20
Coronavirus. “Why Cornell Will Reopen in the Fall.” By Michael L. Kotlikoff and Martha E. Pollack. [Students will return to Ithaca in any case. On campus, we can track and isolate Covid cases.] 7-1–20
Coronavirus. “An Old Vaccine May Help Against Covid.” By Robert C. Gallo and Daniel J. Arbess. [A tablet for polio boosts innate immunity, which fights other viruses.] 7-1–20
Coronavirus. “The Coronavirus Credibility Gap.” By Joseph A. Ladapo. [Politicians and experts sow distrust with double standards on protests and dissembling about masks.] 7-2-20
Coronavirus. “Waiting for Diners to Show Up Again.” By Bob Greene. [Stay at home for weeks on end, the Miramor remains my friend.] 7-3-20
Coronavirus. “The Wages of Reopening.” [A strong June jobs report shows gains from ending the lockdowns.] 7-3-20
Coronavirus. “A True Economic Stimulus Plan.” By Casey B. Mulligan and Stephen Moore. [Don’t extend benefits for unemployment. Suspend the payroll tax to spur work and growth.] 7-3-20
Coronavirus. “Herd Immunity May Be Closer Than You Think.” By Allysia Finley. [Antibody tests could significantly underestimate the number of novel coronavirus infections.] 7-7-20
Coronavirus. “How Japan Beat Coronavirus Without Lockdowns.” By Yasutoshi Nishimura. [A focus on contact tracing and ‘cluster busting’ has allowed us to avoid harmful economic restrictions.] 7-8-20
Coronavirus. “Schools Can Open Safely This Fall.” By Scott Gottlieb. [Staggered schedules and other precautions would help reduce children’s low- but real risk from Covid.] 7-13-20
Coronavirus. “The Case for Reopening Schools.” [The harm from lost instruction outweighs the Covid-19 risks.] 7-14-20
Coronavirus. “Why I’ll Be On Campus This Fall.” By John Hasnas. [I’m high risk for Covid-19, but I’m obligated to give my Georgetown students the education they pay for.] 7-14-20
Coronavirus. “Americans and the Virus.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [A nation searches for the happy medium between lockdown and letting it rip.] 7-15-20
Coronavirus. “California’s Second Shutdown.” [Gov. Newsom succumbs to pressure and locks the economy again.] 7-15-20
Coronavirus. “Trump’s Virus Non-Message.” [“…The problem is that the White House seems to have given up on projecting any consistent virus message…] 7-16-20
Coronavirus. “The Politics of Hydroxychloroquine.” By Allysia Finley. [Trump touted it, so Biden denounces it. The FDA has suspended a permit for its use. Let doctors decide.] 7-16-20
Coronavirus. “The Covid Fiscal Crisis Is About Debt and Taxes.“ by Joseph C. Sternberg. [The only thing worse than how we’d pay for pandemic relief is what will happen when, inevitably, we don’t.] 7-16-20
Coronavirus. “The Economy Won’t Get Healthier While America Get Sicker.” By Alan S. Blinder. [Consumers won’t venture out if they feel unsafe. To avert a double-dip recession, crush the virus.] 7-17-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Gives cover To Hard Calls.” By Matthew Hennessey. [Some see opportunity in the global health crisis. But the window to act won’t be open for long.] 7-18-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Has Me Counting U.S. Counties.” By Robert D. Hershey Jr. [I’m trying to visit them all. Where else can you go during a pandemic?] 7-20-20
Coronavirus. “Behind the HHS-CDC Disagreement.” By Scott Gottlieb. [An interagency feud over key data demonstrates the inadequacy of U.S. efforts to prepare for a pandemic.] 7-20-20
Coronavirus. “Blue States Deserve Money From Washington.” By Richard Ravitch. 7-20-20
Coronavirus. “Covid’s Harrowing Complications.” By Henry I. Miller. [The disease is less deadly than initially feared, but it an be far worse than a cold.] 7-21-20
Coronavirus. “’Main Street’ Program Is Too Stingy to Banks and Borrowers.” By Glenn Hubbard and Hal Scott. [Designed to save midsize businesses, it will work only with greater backing and more generous terms.] 7-21-20
Coronavirus. “The Raid on Remdesivir.” [The drug is saving Covid patients. Politicians want to confiscate it.] 7-22-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus May Give Trump an Edge.” By Ted Ball. [His voters are more enthusiastic than Biden’s, and may be less fearful of going to the polls.] 7-22-20
Coronavirus. “New York Is No ‘Donor State.’” By Matthew Schoenfeld. [Cuomo’s claim that the Empire State ‘gives’ more than it ‘gets’ is based on distorted measures.] 7-22-20
Coronavirus. “A Vaccine Progress Report.” [Private innovation and public money are betting on multiple candidates.] 7-23-20
Coronavirus. “The Mnuchin Follies.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [With his help, Pelosi keeps outmaneuvering Republican senators on coronavirus bills.] 7-24-20
Coronavirus. “A Phase-Four Flop.” [The latest proposals have everything but a growth agenda.] 7-24-20
Coronavirus. “Covid S.O.S. in Hidalgo.” [A warning about the need to surge help to coronavirus hot spots.] 7-24-20
Coronavirus. “No More Blank Checks From Congress for Coronavirus.” By Ron Johnson. [Lawmakers are rushing to spend more money without oversight on $2.9 trillion already passed.] 7-24-20
Coronavirus. “You’re More Likely to Catch Covid at Home Than in Jail.” By Sean Kennedy. [Early release policies have had no effect on transmission behind bars. But they have contributed to a crime wave.] 7-25-20
Coronavirus. “What Else Cuomo Crushed.” [“…But he didn’t have to crush his state’s economy at the same time…] 7-25-20
Coronavirus. “Americans Are Waking up to the First Covid Wave.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [Dealing with the virus and having an economy aren’t incompatible, but the U.S. needs a U.S. approach.] 7-25-20
Coronavirus. “Covid Shows the Need for a Diagnostic Stockpile.” By Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan. [Congress can meet the current surge in demand for testing and be ready for the next pandemic.] 7-27-20
Coronavirus. “The World’s Covid Resurgence.” [Countries halted as models see a virus case revival.] 7-29-20
Coronavirus. “Senators Get a Meaty Education.” [A CEO instructs critics on production and safety in a pandemic.] 7-29-20
Coronavirus. “How to Hold Beijing Accountable for the Coronavirus.” By Jamie Metzl. [Why did China cover up the epidemic? The most plausible explanation involves a Wuhan lab.] 7-29-20
Coronavirus. “The Virus May Strike Teachers Unions.” By David R. Henderson. [What happens when they refuse to do their jobs and it turns out home-schoolers are better at it anyway?] 7-30-20
Coronavirus. “Pandemic Education Scholarships.” [The Senate GOP bill includes cash for private schools that reopen.] 7-30-20
Coronavirus. “The Bureau of Pandemic Investigation.” [The White House idea of virus relief includes a new FBI building.] 7-30-20
Coronavirus. “The Lockdown’s Destruction.” [Incredibly, some in the media want to repeat the second-quarter debacle.] 7-31-20
Coronavirus. ”Trump Alone Can Deliver Tax Relief.” By Stephen Moore and Phil Kerpen. [Suspend collection of the payroll levy using the same authority that extended the filing deadline to July.] 8-3-20
Coronavirus. “Want Schools to Open? Get Serious About Outbreaks.” By Scott Gottlieb and Michael B. Strain. [The spring decision to open inessential businesses came at the expense of all classrooms.] 8-3-20
Coronavirus. “The pandemic is a Dress Rehearsal.” By Walter Russell Mead. [The world is entering a transformative era. Prepare for more chaos and instability.] 8-4-20
Coronavirus. “School-Opening Extortion.” [Teachers unions are using Covid-19 as a political weapon.] 8-4-20
Coronavirus. “Fear and Loathing in Covid America.” By Joseph A. Ladapo. [Public panic and media scorn are shutting down important debates about how to tackle the virus.] 8-4-20
Coronavirus. “Covid-19 Hastens the Work-at-Home Revolution.” By Erica Komisar. 8-4-20
Coronavirus. “The Hidden Danger of Masks.” By Allysia Finley. [Dr. Birx noted in April that they can promote a false sense of security. Protests bear that out.] 8-5-20
Coronavirus. “Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Choice.” [Another Pelosi-Mnuchin blowout isn’t needed and will divide the GOP.] 8-6-20
Coronavirus. “The Swedish Economic Model.” [Stockholm strikes a different balance between virus and GDP.] 8-6-20
Coronavirus. “School Closures Damage the Youngest Children.” By Christine K. VanDeVelde. [Kids learn to function as people by playing together between ages 2 and 5. They can’t play on Zoom.] 8-8-20
Coronavirus. “Don’t Let Covid and the Flu Team Up to Pound America.” By Scott Gottlieb. [A priority should be developing antiviral drugs that can be given early to prevent severe illness.] 8-10-20
Coronavirus. “Untangling the Media Myths of Covid-19.” By Gerard Baker. [They’re countless. States reporters shamed have done the best, and the U.S. is average among its peers.] 8-11-20
Coronavirus. “The Putin Vaccine Gambit.” Homan W. Jenkins, Jr. [Hooray if Russia has actually made progress on Covid, but don’t bet on it.] 8-12-20
Coronavirus. “How to Beat china and Help the world’s Poor.” By Hernando de Soto. [A plan to unleash the power of ownership by formalizing capital in the informal economy.] 8-12-20
Coronavirus. “Lockdowns and School Shutdowns May Make Youngsters Sicker.” By Allysia finley. [Evidence is ample that stress an inactivity weaken immunity against Covid and other diseases.] 8-12-20
Coronavirus. “’Covid Powers’ Wreck My Neighborhood.” By Julia Vitullo-Martin. [New York City has commandeered three hotels and moved in hundreds of addicts.] 8-13-20
Coronavirus. “Individual Choice Is a Bad Fit for Covid Safety.” By Alan S. Blinder. [Consider the externalities: We each choose whether to isolate or wear a mask, but all society bears the costs.] 8-13-20
Coronavirus. “The Treatment That Could Crush Covid.” By Kevin Kimberlin. [Early trials show signaling cells eliminate the virus, calm the immune e response and repair tissue damage.] 8-14-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Lockdowns Usher in the New Roaring ‘20s.” by Allysia Finley. [An underground social economy is growing to escape state prohibitions.] 8-15-20
Coronavirus. “Prepare for Tendentious Covid ‘Lessons.’ By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Ignore those pitching progressive politics in favor of those still open to learning from the virus.] 8-15-20
Coronavirus. “Lifting Lockdowns Won’t Fully Restore the Economy.” By Scott Gottlieb and Michael R. Strain. [[Americans are reasonably worried about getting sick. Controlling the virus is key to avoiding a recession.] 8-17-20
Coronavirus. “Lockdown Becomes an Australian Nightmare.” By James Morrow. [Our Covid response, once the envy of the world, now threatens to ruin the economy.] 8-18-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus, Contracts and the Constitution.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and J. Michael Luttig. [Plaintiff lawyers respond to government lockdowns by seeking to bankrupt the insurance industry.] 8-18-20
Coronavirus. “The White House Prepared for a Pandemic.” By Joel M. Zinberg and Tomas J. Philipson. [A September 2019 report laid the groundwork for Operation Warp Speed.] 8-19-20
Coronavirus. Why would States Limit Hospital-Bed Supply? By Jaimie Cavanaugh and Daryl James. [‘Certificate of need’ laws proved deadly when the Covid pandemic struck.] 8-20-20
Coronavirus. “The Obama-Biden Virus Response.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [If H1N1 had proved as deadly as Covid-19, it could have killed nearly two million.] 8-21-20
Coronavirus. “Covid Summer Drew This Tourist Off the Beaten path.” By Faith Bottum. [Where can you go to be alone without feeling lonely? Try the geographic center of the country.] 8-22-20
Coronavirus. “Counting the Cost of Britain’s Lockdown.” [The trade-offs get harder in a socialized medical system.] 8-22-20
Coronavirus. “Betting on Better Drug Trials to Beat Covid-19.” By Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan. [Studies are competing for too few patients. It’s time to direct resources toward the most promising therapies.] 8-24-20
Coronavirus. “Georgia’s Pandemic Progress.” [“…it recognized early that shutting down an economy is unnecessary and destructive.] 8-25-20
Coronavirus. “Notable & Quotable: Enough.” By Karol Markowicz, writing in the New York Post on Aug. 24: “We can’t live like this anymore. The constant new rules, the continued dance around reopening. New York City is failing. Our governor and mayor are keeping us in a state of disarray…” 8-25-20
Coronavirus. “It’s Time to Open New York’s Offices.” By Jeff T. Blau. [The city can’t recover until the people who work here come back.] 8-26-20
Coronavirus. “Kansas Democrats Covid Chart Masks the Truth.” By Allysia Finley. [The state’s health secretary fudged the data to make the governor’s mask mandate look successful.] 8-27-20
Coronavirus. “A Coronavirus Lesson About the Modern State.” By Joseph C. Sternberg [A technocratic ‘fix’ for cancelled A-level exams turned a health crisis into a social disaster.] 8-28-20
Coronavirus. “Cuomo Gets a Nursing Home Inspection.” [A Justice Department probe will examine New York’s Covid-19 deaths.] 8-29-20
Coronavirus. “Sweden Shouldn’t Be America’s Pandemic Model.” By Scott Gottlieb. [The Swedes aren’t close to reaching herd immunity. We need to continue to contain the virus spread.] 8-31-20
Coronavirus. “Plagues Are Back. Will Wars Follow?” by Vance Serchuk. [By now we should be used to re-emerging threats we thought we’d consigned to history.] 9-1-20
Coronavirus. “The Democratic State Budget Scare.” [Tax revenue is coming in much better than expected in most places.] 9-1-20
Coronavirus. “The Failed Experiment of Covid Lockdowns.” By Donald L. Luskin. [New data suggest that social distancing and reopening haven’t determined the spread.] 9-2-20
Coronavirus. “A Virus Progress Report.” [It’s no time to be complacent, but the summer surge has eased.] 9-2-20
Coronavirus. “The Remdesivir Patent Isn’t State Property.” By Sally C. Pipes. [Attorneys general want to seize Gilead’s right to its drug, but government did little to help create it.] 9-2-20
Coronavirus. “I’d Rather Be Learning.” By Hannah Stoll. [Boston’s gyms are open. So why can’t I go back to school?] 9-3-20
Coronavirus. “Madame Speaker Gets a Haircut.” [And she also wants an apology from the shop.] 9-3-20
Coronavirus. “To Combat Covid, Don’t Turn the Clock Back.” By Dinah Miller. [A return to standard time would mean an hour less for outdoor social activity.] 9-4-20
Coronavirus. “Trump’s Housing Seizure.” [The CDC decides it can abrogate rental contracts nationwide.] 9-4-20
Coronavirus. “The Case Against Covid Tests for the Young and Healthy.” By Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff. [Hunting for asymptomatic cases encourages pointless shutdowns. Protect the vulnerable instead.] 9-4-20
Coronavirus. “Welcome to Washington, Dr. Atlas.” (The Weekend interview with Scott W. Atlas by Tunku Varadarajan.) [Trump’s new Covid adviser makes the case for reopening and says it’s a ‘preposterous lie’ that he advocates ‘herd immunity.’] 9-5-20
Coronavirus. “Too Much Distance Ruins Travel.” By Danny Heitman. [Getting to know people is the whole point of visiting unfamiliar places.] 9-5-20
Coronavirus. “Dad, Please Get a Covid Shot.” By Marc Siegel. [You too, Sen. Harris. This isn’t the swine flu; it’s a genuine deadly pandemic.] 9-8-20
Coronavirus. “Government vs. Private Covid Layoffs.” [The data show that public workers have been hurt the least.] 9-9-20
Coronavirus. “The Sturgis Statistical Misfire..” [Blaming a South Dakota Rally but giving protesters a Covid Pass.] 9-10-20
Coronavirus. “Notre Dame Is Playing Football. See You at Touchdown Jesus.” By Jack Swarbrick. [The university’s decision to move forward with the fall season is rooted in care for athletes and safety.] 9-12-20
Coronavirus. “Democrats Filibuster Covid Relief.” [They block money for small business, schools and jobless benefits.] 9-11-20
Coronavirus. “How ‘Emergency Use’ Can Help Roll Out a Covid Vaccine.” By Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan. [The FDA can approve a promising candidate for those most at risk while continuing to collect data.] 9-14-20
Coronavirus. “Pandemic Unemployment Will Soon Bring Tax Hikes.” By Mark Duggan and Andrew C. Johnston. [Levies will rise as workers return, hindering the recovery. Two reforms would ease the problem.] 9-14-20
Coronavirus. “It Takes a Superspreader to Know a Superspreader.” By Gerard Baker. [Whether Sturgis, BLM, or voting by mail, the media chooses narrative over facts every time.] 9-15-20
Coronavirus. “Will Congress Ever Break the Covid Relief Standoff?” by Alan S. Blinder. [Senate Republicans resist passing a new bill, even through it’s needed and politically expedient.]( (Blinder was an adviser to Al Gore and John Kerry during their respective presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004.) 9-15-20
Coronavirus. “Liberating Pennsylvania From Lockdown.” [A judge says Gov. Wolf’s orders violate the U.S. Constitution.] 9-16-20
Coronavirus. ‘Our Company Gets Back to Work.” By Alex Conant and Terry Sullivan. [Zoom conferences are no substitute for in-person meetings.] 9-17-20
Coronavirus. “How to Live With Covid Not for It.” By Joseph A. Ladapo. [If reason finally prevails over panic, policy makers will reopen schools and focus on the vulnerable.] 9-17-20
Coronavirus. “Covid Puts the ‘I’ in the High Holy Days.” By Jonathan Sachs. [Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur aren’t the same without communal prayer.] 9-18-20
Coronavirus. “Playing ‘Would You Rather’ in the Covid Age.” By Allan Ripp. [Risk infection, or forgo seeing our grandchildren? 9-18-20
Coronavirus. “Europe’s Covid Lockdown Lessons.” [The virus is returning but leaders decide they can’t shut down again.] 9-18-20
Coronavirus. “The Hospital Lobbyists Behind Cuomo’s Nursing Home Scandal.” By Bill Hammond. [The governor has a tight political alliance with the powerful nonprofit repping New York’s health systems.] 9-19-20
Coronavirus. “A Little Debate on Plasma Is healthy for Science.” By Arturo Casadevail and Nigel Paneth. [The FDA says it’s likely effective, while NIH urges caution. The answer: Get more data from trials.] 9-23-20
Coronavirus. “Good Vaccine Progress, Bad Politics.” [A fourth candidate enters Phase 3, never mind the carpers.] 9-24-20
Coronavirus. “No Need to Sweat Covid Vaccination Rates.” By Tomas J. Philipson. [As long as seniors and essential workers are immunized, deaths will drop and life can resume.] 9-24-20
Coronavirus. “The College Covid Scare.” [Cases spike on campus but with very few hospitalizations.] 9-25-20
Coronavirus. “Andrew Cuomo, Vaccine Czar.” 9-28-20
Coronavirus. “Congress’s Covid Income Redistribution.” [State income figures show a blue-state Cares Act bonanza.] 9-29-20
Coronavirus. “Pelosi Tries to Settle for $2.2 Trillion.” [This is not a deal that President Trump should consider taking.] 9-30-20
Coronavirus. “Your Covid Crib Sheet, Updated.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Mysteries remain but one thing is known: We will be living with the virus indefinitely.] 9-30-20
Coronavirus. “Leave No Country Behind in the Post-Covid Recovery.” By Robert B. Zoelick. [The pandemic may deepen global poverty and stifle trade and investment.] 10-1-20
Coronavirus. “Beat Covid Without a Vaccine.] by Laurrence Kotlikoff and Michael Mina. [Home testing and ‘digital passports’ could stop outbreaks.] 10-2-20
Coronavirus. “The Coronavirus College Scam.” By Stephen Moore. [My son’s university invited him ack to campus for remote classes at $70,000 a year. He got a job instead.] 10-2-20
Coronavirus. “New Stat Augurs Well for Covid Recovery.” By Mark Skousen. [Gross output measures business confidence better than GDP. It’s fallen less than in past recessions.] 10-3-20
Coronavirus. “Trump’s Positive Covid Test.” [His infection isn’t karma, and he can set an example of optimism as he recovers.] 10-3-20
Coronavirus. “Coronavirus Delivers an October Surprise.” By Peggy Noonan. [After a disastrous debate and a shocking twist, the vice-presidential debate takes on huge importance.] 10-3-20
Coronavirus. “No Surprise When Someone Gets Covid.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The disease is endemic. And even 74 year-olds can have mild cases that aren’t debilitating.] 10-3-20
Coronavirus. “An End to Michigan’s Endless Emergency.” [Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has her powers pared by the state’s high court.] 10-5-20
Coronavirus. “The Trump Coronavirus Spread.” By Scott Gottlieb and Yuval Levin. [It might have been avoided if White House officials had worn masks and relied on more-sensitive tests.] 10-5-20
Coronavirus. “White House Medical Confusion.” [Mixed messages like those on Saturday hurt the President.] 10-5-20
Coronavirus. “Trump Can Champion Coronavirus Awareness.” By Bob Brody. [He can help himself and the country by turning his diagnosis into a call for following virus protocol.] 10-5-20
Coronavirus. Trump Takes Zinc. Maybe You Should Too.” By Allysia Finley. [Research suggest the mineral bolsters the immune system against Covid and other diseases.] 10-6-20
Coronavirus. “Outside Walter Reed, a Misinformation Epidemic..” by Gerard Baker. [The White House feeds a hostile media’s suspicion, and they can’t resist gorging themselves.] 10-6-20
Coronavirus. “Job One for the Veep: Explain Covid.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Mike Pence gets a second chance to level about a disease we will be living with.] 10-7-20
Coronavirus. “Pelosi’s Taxpayer Ransom Demand.” [Trump walked after the Speaker insisted on no less than $2 trillion.] 10-7-20
Coronavirus. “Trump, Covid and Reason.” [A new statement by scientists explains how to live with the virus.] 10-7-20
Coronavirus. “FDR, Coronavirus and The Politics of Bravado.” By Lance Morrow. [“…Bravado and defiant panache have their uses in the conduct of leadership…”] 10-9-20
Coronavirus. “The Trump Treatment for Covid Is Coming Soon.” By Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan. [Antibody drugs like the one the president took may be a bridge to a vaccine.] 10-9-20
Coronavirus. “The Captain of Operation Warp Speed.” (The Weekend Interview with Moncel Slaoui.) [How a public-private partnership is overcoming technical and bureaucratic obstacles to find a way of inoculating against Covid.] 10-10-20
Coronavirus. “A Jewish Revolt Against Lockdowns.” [Haredim take to the streets and courst against Gov. Cuomo.] 10-10-20
Coronavirus. “Why Politician Despise Us – Continued.” By Holman W. Jenkins, jr. [Among the fibs at the vice presidential debate, the worst is a bipartisan myth about the virus’s spread.] 10-10-20
Coronavirus. “Regeneron’s Coronavirus October Surprise.” By Marc Siegel. [Trump told me in July that he was more hopeful about therapeutics than about a vaccine. He was prescient.] 10-14-20
Coronavirus. “The Teachers Union’s Tiny New Enemy.” By Elliot Kaufman. [The behemoth national Education Association seeks to squash popular pandemic microschools.] 10-15-20
Coronavirus. “Andrew Cuomo Takes a ‘Hatchet.’” [In a recorded call, he explains why he favors broad lockdowns.] 10-16-20
Coronavirus. “The West Gets Real About Covid.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [And why a Portuguese scholar says the reality principle is liberalism’s last nemesis.] 10-17-20
Coronavirus. “Where Do I Go to Get My Covid Antibody Cocktail?” by Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan. [Researchers are making quick progress, but we need infusion sites and new models for payment. 10-19-20
Coronavirus. “End te School Shutdown.” By David R. Henderson and Ryan Sullivan. [In-person classes turn out not to cause spikes in cases or fatality. But keeping kids home has a high cost. 10-21-20
Coronavirus. “Prisoners Don’t Need Covid Stimulus Checks.” By Chandra Bozelko. [An unwise judicial order will infuse tax money into inmate black markets.] 10-21-20
Coronavirus. “Red and Blue States of Recovery.” [Joe Biden’s ‘K-shaped’ economy is made in the lockdown states.] 10-23-20
Coronavirus. “Beijing’s Covid Recovery Isn’t So Enviable.” By Joseph C. Sternberg. [China touts GDP growth but faces a hard call: rest on a fragile economy or try for a difficult transition?] 10-23-20
Coronavirus. “Epidemiologists Stray From the Covid Herd.” (The Weekend Interview with Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya by Tunku Varadarajan. [The Great Barrington Declaration co-authors on the costs of lockdown, the science of immunity, and the politicization of the Coronavirus pandemic.] 10-24-20
Coronavirus. “Democrats Want Medicatid for the Wealthy.” By Chris Jacobs. [The Covid relief law prevents states from disenrolling those earning six figures.] 10-26-20
Coronavirus. “Winter is Coming: Time for a Mask Mandate.” By Scott Gottlieb. [A requirement to cover your face in public could be more of a cultural norm than a political statement.] 10-26-20
Coronavirus. “50 First Dates With Covid and Biden.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [To deploy a vaccine we will need accurate data and Washington’s eye on the ball.] 10-28-20
Coronavirus. “Coping with the Covid Winter.” [Death rates have fallen sharply amid better care and treatments.] 10-28-20
Coronavirus. “Dodd-Frank Undermines the Fight Against Covid.” By John Berlau and Seth Carter. [The ‘conflict minerals’ provision blocks resources vital for everything from ventilators to vaccines.] 10-28-2
Coronavirus. “Europe’s Covid Lockdowns Return.” [The virus shows that it can’t be banished by government edict.] 10-29-20
Coronavirus. “Masks Are a Distraction From the pandemic Reality.” By Joseph a. Ladapo. [Viruses inevitably spread, and authorities have oversold face coverings as a preventive measure.] 10-29-20
Coronavirus. “The Post-Lockdown Comeback.” [No new stimulus, no problem, as the U.S. economy grows 33.1%.] 10-30-20
Coronavirus. “The Other Media Blackout.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [How can Americans use good sense about an epidemic about which they are fed false information?] 10-31-20
Coronavirus. “How Congress Can Get Kids Back to Class.” By Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan. [Schools don’t appear to be a major source of spread, and the government can pass out N95s to teachers.] 11-2-20
Coronavirus. “Europe’s Covid Hospital Lesson.” [National health care has led to funding caps and too few ICU beds.] 11-3-20
Coronavirus. “Britain Locks Down, Again.] [The new U.K. shutdown is a political blunder by Boris Johnson.] 11-4-20
Coronavirus. “To Cope With Covid, the World’s Poor Need Debt Relief.” By DaviD Malpass. [This economic crisis is even harder than usual for the worst-off. Concessions from creditors can ease recovery.] 11-5-20
Coronavirus. “The Fog of Worship With Facemasks.” By Mike Kerrigan. 11-5-20
Coronavirus. “The Jobs Keep Coming.” 11-7-20
Coronavirus. “The States Are Laboratories for Covid Control.” By Scott Gottlieb. [President-elect Biden can look to the Massachusetts testing regime, Maryland’s strike teams and more.] 11-9-20
Coronavirus. “Of Policy and Pandemics.” (Bookshelf by Adam J. White.) “American Contagions.” By John Fabian Witt. [During disease outbreaks, constitutional governments afford themselves vast powers. The problem? Giving those powers back.] 11-10-20
Coronavirus. “The Covid Vaccine Cavalry.” [Pfizer brings good news but watch out for Biden’s virus team.] 11-10-20
Coronavirus. “How Vaccines Prove Their Safety.” By Kevin N. Sheth and Serena Spudich. [Rare complications will arise, but the public can be confident researchers will get to the bottom of them.] 11-10-20
Coronavirus. “It’s Biden’s Virus Now.” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [A new administration means new realism about a pathogen we’ll be living with.] 11-11-20
Coronavirus. “Case for Mask Mandate Rests on Bad Data.” By Phillip W. Magness. [A top scientific journal lowballs the percentage of Americans who are already covering their faces.] 11-12-20
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Lockdown Lobby.” [His Covid advisers seem to have learned nothing from the spring recession.] 11-13-20
Coronavirus. “Covid and the Church in Delaware.” 11-13-20
Coronavirus. “We Don’t Need Government Mandates for Covid Vaccination.” [This isn’t smallpox and doesn’t require draconian measures that infringe on basic civil liberties.] 11-13-20
Coronavirus. “New York’s Kids Aren’t All Right.” [The teachers union and the mayor prepare to shut down schools again.] 11-14-20
Coronavirus. “It’s Now Up to Governors to Slow the Spread.” By Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan. [States should coordinate their efforts and close bars and nightclubs – or risk expensive lockdowns later.] 11-16-20
Coronavirus. “Trump, Biden and Covid Vaccines.” [Will Joe’s advisers scuttle more rapid FDA approvals.?] 11-17-20
Coronavirus. “Two Existing Technologies Could Fight Covid Now.” By Salmaan Keshavjee and Tom Nicholson. [Germicidal lighting and a tuberculosis vaccine should be a part of the pandemic response.] 11-17-20
Coronavirus. “A Vaccine Is Already Helping. By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Young adults see an end in sight to the sacrifices they’re making for the old.] 11-18-20
Coronavirus. “Lockdowns Have a Bright Side for Teens.” By Erica Komisar. [They’re talking more to parents and getting more sleep, reducing levels of depression.] 11-18-20
Coronavirus. “Gretchen Whitmer Strikes Again.” [Restaurants sue over Michigan’s rule by emergency edict.] 11-19-20
Coronavirus. “A Global Covid Vaccine Heist.” [India and south Africa want the WTO to vitiate private U.S. patents.] 11-20-20
Coronavirus. “Teachers Should Get The Covid Vaccine First.” By Aaron Strong and Jonathan Welburn. [Immunity would overcome resistance to reopening schools, which is vital. 11-20-20
Coronavirus. “Some Masks Will Protect You Better Than Others.” By Scott Gottlieb. [Surgical outperforms cloth, and an N95 is far superior to a bandanna.] 11-23-20
Coronavirus. “A Heap of Thanksgiving Hypocrisy.” By Wm. McGurn. [What all those pols caught violating their own Covid-19 rules really tells us.) 11-24-20
Coronavirus. “The Political Class’s Hypocrisy Long Predates Covid-19.” By Jason L. Riley. [Cuomo’s thanksgiving troubles remind me of an encounter years ago at Reagan national Airport.] 11-25-20
Coronavirus. “Hospitals prepare for the New Covid Wave.” By Mark Jarrett and Bruce Farber. [Applying the lessons we learned in spring should make the disease more manageable this time.] 11-24-20
Coronavirus. “The Dow Hits 30,000.” [Another sign of economic resilience amid the pandemic.] 11-25-20
Coronavirus. “Too Much Caution Is Killing Covid Patients.” By Joseph a. Ladapo. [Doctors should follow the evidence for promising therapies. Instead, they demand certainty.] 11-25-20
Coronavirus. “Lost Your Job? You Shouldn’t Have to Lose Your Home.” By Arthur B. Laffer and Alan M. Dershowitz. [An insurance product could have saved billions of dollars in pandemic-related foreclosures.] 11-25-20
Coronavirus. “Fireworks Over Religious Liberty.” [The Supreme Court says Cuomo’s orders violate the First Amendment.] 11-27-20
Coronavirus. “A Speedy Recovery Depends on More Aid. Will Trump Deliver?” by Alan S. Blinder. [The economy can’t wait until January for more help for states, businesses and the unemployed.] 11-27-20
Coronavirus. “The Constitution Will Survive Covid-19.” By David b. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A Casey. [The pandemic may justify extraordinary measures, but judges won’t accept the most draconian ones.] 11-28-20
Coronavirus. “When the Experts Fail, Everyone Else Pays the Price.” By David Mamet. [What happens when the most respected authorities get it wrong and ruin lives and economies? Not much.] 11-28-20
Coronavirus. “Covid Was Hiding Among Colds and Flus.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Too much focus on Washington and magic fixes has impeded grassroots adaptation.] 11-28-20
Coronavirus. “Deploying Big Data to Determine How Well Vaccines Work.” By Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan. [As the initial rollout starts, it’s time to start planning a registry to monitor health outcomes.] 11-30-20
Coronavirus. “We Decide How Much Covid.” By Holman W. Jenkins Jr. [The U.S. promoted the illusion of control instead of the wisdom of risk management.] 12-2-20
Coronavirus. “A Covid Vaccine Peace Prize.” By Daniel Henninger. [The pharmaceutical scientists who created these vaccines deserve the world’s gratitude.] 12-3-20
Coronavirus. “The White House Favors a Bridge to Recovery.” By Tyler Goodspeed. [Federal relief so far has exceeded expectations, and a new round could sustain growth until vaccines arrive.] 12-3-20
Coronavirus. “McConnell’s Spending Line.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Can he hold it? The answer will set the course of Biden’s presidency.] 12-4-20
Coronavirus. “Unemployment Bonus Proves Its Harm.” By Casey B. Mulligan and Stephen Moore. [Job openings declined sharply in August, after the $600.00 weekly payments stopped.] 12-4-20
Coronavirus. “The FDA’s Political Inoculation.” [Thy the U.K. has approved a vaccine faster than the U.S.] 12-4-20
Coronavirus. “Oregon’s Segregated Covid Relief Fund Is Blatantly Unconstitutional.” By James Huffman. [Maria Garcia applied for aid and was denied simply because she doesn’t ‘identify as Black.’] 12-5-20
Coronavirus. “Pennsylvania Vetoes Help for Business.” [The legislation offered liability protections for good-faith actors.] 12-5-20
Coronavirus. “Payrolls Take a Covid Break.” [Job growth slowed but much of the recovery remains strong.] 12-5-20
Coronavirus. “Mask Wars Revisited.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Use of face coverings increased steadily and impressively right into the current national outbreak.] 12-5-20
Coronavirus. “First Cuomo, Now Newsom” [The Supreme Court extends its scrutiny over pandemic orders.] 12-7-20
Coronavirus. “Who’ll Get the Covid Vaccine First?” by Scott Gottlieb. [The best option may be to inoculate those over 65 with a focus on low-income communities.] 12-7-20
Coronavirus. “Paying for More Covid Relief.” [Republicans should insist on using the $429 billion in Fed funds.] 12-8-20
Coronavirus. “Covid and The New Age of Censorship.” By Alex Berenson. [It doesn’t promote public health when media and tech companies stifle scientific debate.] 12-8-20
Coronavirus. “Americans Need Help While Awaiting a Vaccine.” By Charlie Baker. 12-8-20
Coronavirus. “No More Bishop Nice Guy.” By Matthew Hennessey. [Religious leaders have been too deferential to unreasonable Covid restrictions.] 12-9-20
Coronavirus. “The Best Herd Immunity Money Can Buy.” By Jason L. Riley. [Paying people to get the Covid-19 shot may be the way to overcome skepticism about the vaccine.] 12-9-20
Coronavirus. “The Economy Needs a Little More PPP.” By Glenn Hubbard and Michael R. Strain. [The next version of the Paycheck Protection Program should focus on helping smaller firms.] 12-9-20
Coronavirus. “The New Covid Resistance.” By Daniel Henninger. [A population of deplorables is rising among people who aren’t in MAGA hats.] 12-10-20
Coronavirus. “George W. Bush and the Covid Vaccine.” By Karl Rove. [Credit 2020’s speedy development in part to a series of laws he signed in 2002-06.] 12-10-20
Coronavirus. “Schumer’s Unemployment Flip-Flop.” [His current Covid relief demands contradict his own bill from July.] 12-10-20
Coronavirus. “Italians Will Be Frozen in Place This Christmas.” [Think US. lockdowns are bad? Imagine being confined to your town.] 12-10-20
Coronavirus. “A Shot (instead of Two) at Saving Lives.” By Michael Segal. [Waiting on the Covid booster would allow more people to be vaccinated sooner.] 12-11-20
Coronavirus. “The Restaurant Lockdown Massacre.” [New shutdown orders punish minorities and low-income workers.] 12-12-20
Coronavirus. “On the One Hand, There’s a Pandemic.” By Bridget Basis. [On the other, I’m all thumbs because I can use only one of them.] 12-14-20
Coronavirus. “Antibodies As Covid Insurance.” By Scott Gottlieb. [A stockpile of medications from Regeneron and Eli Lilly to prepare in case vaccines aren’t enough.] 12-15-20
Coronavirus. “Vaccines vs. Lockdowns.” By Homan W. Jenkins, Jr. [Science triumphed but shouldn’t we have cut corners and moved faster??] 12-16-20
Coronavirus. “Covid Vaccine Shakedown At the WTO.” By James Pooley. [Mercantile interests are behind India’s and South Africa’s high-minded talk about helping the poor.] 12-17-20
Coronavirus. “Hijacking the Fed to Bail Out States.” [Democrats are blocking Covid relief to keep 13(3) pandemic lending alive.] 12-18-20
Coronavirus. “How to End Lockdowns Next Month.” By Jay Bhattacharya and Sunetra Gupta. [Target vaccines to the most vulnerable, and don’t give them to people who have already been infected.] 12-18-20
Coronavirus. “Covid Political Relief.” [Another spending blowout, but at least it has limits on the Fed.] 12-21-20
Coronavirus. “Why Are Covid Antibody Drugs Sitting on Shelves.?” [By Scott Gottlieb an Mark McClellan. [Strapped hospitals are struggling to set up infusion sites. But states and the feds can help.] 12-21-20
Coronavirus. “Online Class and False ADHD Diagnoses.” By Erica Komisar. [Children under 10 can’t be expected to stare at a computer for hours.] 12-21-20
Coronavirus. “A Pandemic of Misinformation.” By Scott W. Atlas. [The media’s politicization of Covid has proved deadly and puts Americans’ freedoms a risk.] 12-22-20
Coronavirus. “How the Woke Stole Christmas.” By Gerard Baker. [Cotton Mather deplored ‘masking’ but otherwise sounds a lot like 2020’s Coronavirus commissars.] 12-22-20
Coronavirus. “The State Covid Windfall.” [They plead poverty but their revenue and federal aid show otherwise.] 12-23-20
Coronavirus. “A Sincere Government Apology.” [“…More difficulties no doubt will occur during vaccine distribution…] 12-23-20
Coronavirus. “Covid Has Killed the Apology.” By Daniel Henninger. [John Hopkins should create a metric for politicians who break their own virus rules.] 12-24-20
Coronavirus. “who Made the Vaccine Possible? Not WHO.” By Graham T. Allison. [Pharmaceutical companies and Trump’s Operation Warp Speed deserve the vast bulk of the credit.] 12-24-20
Coronavirus. “A Look Back at the Pandemic Year.” By Peggy Noonan. [All our lives changed in 2020, and it’s only beginning to become clear how and how much.] 12-26-20
Coronavirus. “Covid Is Beginning Its Last Stand.” By Scott Gottlieb. [January will be tough, but with sensible precautions the virus will become a manageable risk by spring.] 12-28-20
Coronavirus. “Cuomo Should Take a Knee in Buffalo.” By Dave Seminara. [The Bills host their first home playoff game in a quarter-century, but fans will likely be kept out.] 12-28-20
Coronavirus. “Honesty Is the Best Policy in Selling Vaccines.” By Robert M. Kaplan and Dominick L. Frosch. [Paternalism is the wrong approach. Patients need full information about the risks and benefits.] 12-29-20
Coronavirus. “The Slow Growth of Covid Realism.” By Holman W. Jenkins. [Can we now admit that herd immunity and vaccines will work in tandem?]. 12-30-20
Coronavirus. “China Jails a Covid Reporter.” [‘Why can’t I show the truth?’ Zhang Zhan dared to ask.] 12-30-20
Coronavirus. “$2,000 Checks for the Affluent.” [Schumer and Trump want to write checks to the non-needy.] 12-31-20
Coronavirus. LTE. “Everybody Wants Credit for the Covid Vaccine.” 12-31-20
Coronavirus. “building Bridges to Help the Economy Through Covid” by Alan S. Blinder. [The Covid relief bill is a down payment on what Joe Biden can do to help avoid a recession.] 12-31-20
Coronavirus. “A Buffalo Bills Miracle.” [“…Mr. Cuomo has kept Bill fans out of the stadium all season…”] 1-2-21
Coronavirus. “The Year in Covid ‘Messaging.’” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [It’s ludicrously late in the day to fault Dr. Fauci for spinning the public.] 1-2-21
Coronavirus. “Pharmacies Can Get shots in Arms.” By Scott Gottlieb. [To speed up vaccine distribution, let national chains like CVS and Walgreens take a role.] 1-4-21
Coronavirus. “Lockdowns Starve Mom and Pop.” By Andy Puzder. [Paying customers are the bet stimulus for any small business.] 1-5-21
Coronavirus. “A Light Regulatory Touch to Keep Covid Drugs Current.” By Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan. [New variants of the virus will call for adaptations of treatments, which shouldn’t need full studies.] 1-11-21
Coronavirus. “Maximize the Vaccine.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [As herd immunity comes nearer, inoculate where it will do the most good.] 1-13-21
Coronavirus. Vaccination by Age Is the Way to Go.” By Fred E. Peterson. [The fight over who gets the shot first is slowing the rollout. Date of birth is the best proxy for level of risk.] 1-13-21
Coronavirus. “An Anti-Bureaucracy Vaccine, Please.” [Delivering shots by age will help the most vulnerable faster.] 1-13-21
Coronavirus. “What WHO Won’t Learn From China.” By human W. Jenkins, Jr. [Beijing likes the story that Covid began elsewhere but at least could tell us about the virus in China Today.] 1-16-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Stimulus Hits all the Right Notes.” By Alan S. Blinder. [His American Rescue Plan builds on what worked in the Cares Act and corrects what didn’t.] (Blinder was an adviser to Al Gore and John Kerry during their respective presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004.) 1-20-21
Coronavirus. “Regeneron’s Antibody Miracle for Covid-19.” By David Asan. [Within two days of receiving treatment, my wife and I had no more symptoms.] 1-22-21 (“…fortifying supplies of the antibody serums, as well as deregulating their distribution and setting up infusion centers in hospitals, should be a top national priority…”)
Coronavirus. “The Covid-19 Origin Investigation.” [Beijing spreads conspiracies while impeding WHO experts.] 1-23-21
Coronavirus. “Trump’s worst Virus Failure.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [He could have broken the norm that says don’t deliver unwelcome news or treat voters like grown-ups.] 1-23-21
Coronavirus. “State Lessons in Vaccine Rollouts.” [Federalism is again proving its value in getting shots in arms.] 1-25-21
Coronavirus. “Send Out the Search Party for New Covid Strains.” By Scott Gottlieb and Caitlin Rivers. [Variants of the virus can be stopped if uncovered early – but that will require more genetic sequencing.] 1-25-21
Coronavirus. “Closing Time for Bars and Restaurants.” By Robert St. John. [Few industries have been harder hit by Covid. We need relief.] 1-26-21
Coronavirus. “Workers Producing the Vaccine Need Vaccination.” By Robert Kramer. [If my company’s employees get sick, there will be fewer shots for everyone.] 1-26-21
Coronavirus. “The Two-Track Jobs Recovery.” [graph: “States with the most and least job losses as a share of total employment from Dec. 2019 – Dec. 2020.”] 1-28-21
Coronavirus. “Italy’s Question Is Ours, Too: Who Will Spend the Covid Cash?” [A government fall amid stimulus fights. Expect Rome’s political disease to spread elsewhere.] 1-29-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Covid Spending Choice.” [Will he negotiate with the GOP or pass a bill with only Democrats?] 2-1-21
Coronavirus. “Another Promising Vaccine, This One From Johnson & Johnson.” By Scott Gottlieb. [But new variants pose an undetermined threat. The flu-vaccine system can be a model for regulators.] 2-1-21
Coronavirus. “Catholic Schools Are Beating Covid.” By Wm. McGurn. [Will Joe Biden speak up for those he credits with making him the man he is today?} 2-2-21
Coronavirus. “Why Operation Warp Speed Worked.” By Arthur Herman. [The vaccine program followed the model of U.S. mobilization in World War II.] 2-2-21
Coronavirus. “Can Biden Broker a Covid Compromise?” by Wm. Galston. [The best shot at a bipartisan bill is focusing on relief, not structural change.] 2-3-21
Coronavirus. “Where’s Biden on Opening Schools?” [So far he’s buckling to the unions that won’t return to classrooms.] 2-3-21
Coronavirus. “Congressional Democrats’ Plan to Bail Out China.” By French Hill. [IMF ‘special drawing rights’ with no strings are the wrong way to help developing countries.] 2-3-21
Coronavirus. “The Tragedy of the Schools.” By David Henninger. [Many parents are losing faith in the public system and are pulling out.] 2-4-21
Coronavirus. “From Covid Relief to Big Government.” By Karl Rove. [Biden wants to dole out checks and create new programs, not find a compromise.] 2-4-21
Coronavirus. “The Short March Back to Inflation.” By Michael D. Bordo and Mickey D. Levy. [Like today, policy makers of the 1960s had bigger worries than prices. Then a spike rushed the economy.] 2-4-21
Coronavirus. “How to Ration Vaccines.” [Basing eligibility on age is the scientific and least political, method.] 2-5-21
Coronavirus. “The ‘Universal Vaccination’ Chimera.” By Joseph A Ladapo. [Tools for stopping variants are limited and, like masks and distancing, vaccines are not a panacea.] 2-5-212-6-21
Coronavirus. “What to Do When There’s a Covid-19 Vaccine Glut.” By Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan. [Supply is ramping up, but many Americans are reluctant to get the shot and need to be persuaded.] 2-8-21
Democrats. “Biden Goes Party Line on $1.9 Trillion.” [Democrats define bipartisanship as Pelosi agreeing with Schumer.] 2-8-21
Coronavirus. “Successes and Setbacks in Covid Vaccination.” By Wm. A. Galston. [Setting policy at the state level seems to work better than letting cities jockey.] 2-10-21
Coronavirus. “As Covid Evolves, Treatments May Prove as Important as Vaccines.” By Allysia Finley. [The FDA has approved only a few therapeutic drugs. Many studies suggest promising options.] 2-12-21
Coronavirus. “The Cuomo Covid Coverup.” [His adviser admits to covering up New York’s nursing home deaths.] 2-13-21
Coronavirus. “Covid Catches Andrew Cuomo.” By Daniel Henninger. [Like Trump, Cuomo has tried to impose himself on Covid. It may not end well.] 2-18-21
Coronavirus. LTE. “L.A. Teachers Union Is Disingenuous on Covid.” 2-18-21
Coronavirus. ”My Mother Got Covid in a New York Nursing Home.” By Kieran E. Morris. [The truth is coming out about Cuomo’s disastrous policy. Families like mine demand accountability.] 2-18-21
Coronavirus. “The Risks of Skimping on Covid Relief.” By Alan S. Blinder. [Some economists warn about too much spending, but too little could hurt the economy more.] 2-18-21 (Blinder was an adviser to Al Gore and John Kerry during their respective presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004.)
Coronavirus. “Follow the Science, Not the Teachers Union.” By Chris Christie. [Biden’s CDC changes its tune for obvious political reasons.] 2-19-21
Coronavirus. “We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April.” By Marty Makary [Covod cases Have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news.] 2-19-21
Coronavirus. “Canada’s Covid Vaccine Failure.” By Michael Taube. 2-20-21
Coronavirus. “The Non-Covid Spending Blowout.” [Most of the $1.9 Trillion House bill has little to do with the virus. Here’s a breakdown.] 2-22-21
Coronavirus. “Two Tales of the Virus.” 2-22-21
Coronavirus. “WHO Said What About Wuhan?” by Scott Gottlieb. 2-22-21
Coronavirus. “Connecticut’s Covid Vaccine Lesson.” [Gov Lamont makes a smart decision to base eligibility on age.] 2-24-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Stimulus Bill Is a $1.9 Trillion Clunker.” By Mitt Romney. [Senate Republicans are eager to get aid where it’s needed, reopen schools and encourage work.] 2-24-21
Coronavirus. “Prayer and Science Led Me to the Vaccine.” By T.D. Jakes. [Like others in the black community, I was hesitant. Then I did my research.] 2-26-21
Coronavirus. “Biden and Allies Stoke Vaccine Fears.” By Joel Zinberg. [Seeking to undermine Trump, Democrats, media and scientists made false and alarming claims.] 2-26-21
Coronavirus. “The CIA Can Help Spot the Next Pandemic.” [Intel agencies and public health officials need to work together against security risks like covid.] 3-1-21
Coronavirus. “Joe Biden’s Trump-Like Fabrication of Covid.” By Gerard Baker. [He is staking his legacy on the lie that the pandemic was out of control until the day of his inauguration.] 3-2-21
Coronavirus. “Operation Warp Speed’s Triumph.” [Trump’s vaccine bet was government’s best pandemic decision.] 3-3-21
Coronavirus. “The Perpetual Covid Crisis.” [The Lockdown lobby persists despite the vaccine rollout.] 3-5-21
Coronavirus. “Let Business Give the Jab in Latin America.” By Mary Anastasia O’Grady. [Prohibiting the sale of vaccines will prolong the pandemic and harm the poor.] 3-8-21
Coronavirus. “The Covid Welfare State.” [The $1.9 trillion Democratic bill provides a guaranteed income unlinked to work.] 3-8-21
Coronavirus. “The Road to Reopening Won’t Be a Straight Line.” By Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan.. [As more people get vaccinated, the Covid threat will change. It won’t go away completely.] 3-8-21
Coronavirus. “Japan Can Lift the covid Cloud From the (Delayed) 2020 Olympics.” By Jonathan Kolatch. [Participants will be subject to strict controls – most of which vaccination has rendered unnecessary.] 3-9-21
Coronavirus. “Lab Theory a Dark Cloud on China.” By Holman W. Jenkin, Jr. [The WHO’s inability to divorce itself from Beijing’s propaganda doesn’t help.] 3-10-21
Coronavirus. “A Year of Living With Covid.” By Daniel Henninger. [In the next pandemic, public-health experts can’t be the only ones telling us what to do. 3-11-21
Coronavirus. “Covid Prescription: Get the Vaccine, Wait a Month, Return to Normal.” By Marty Makary. [The CDC claims to be ‘following the science,’ but its advice suggests it’s still paralyzed by fear. 3-11-21
Coronavirus. “Lessons of the Long Covid Year.” [Lockdowns made the pandemic suffering far worse than necessary.] 3-12-21
Coronavirus. “The Lockdowns Weren’t Worth It.” By Philippe Lemoine. [There’s a reason no government has done a cost-benefit analysis: The policy would surely fail.] 3-12-21
Coronavirus. “How Israel Became the World Vaccine Leader.” (The Weekend Interview with Nachman Ash by Tunku Varadarajan.) [The country made a deal with Pfizer: enough shots for everyone in exchange for data on the results.] 3-13-21
Coronavirus. “Come Back to Florida for Spring Break.” By Dave Seminara. [It’s an opportunity for college students not only to have fun but to learn about freedom.] 3-15-21
Coronavirus. “How to Make Spring the Last Lost Semester.” By Scott Gottlieb and Caitlin Rivers. [With Covid precautions and eventual vaccines for children, classrooms can reopen in time for the fall.] 3-15-21
Coronavirus. “America Doesn’t Need More Stimulus.” By Alexander William Salter. [The spending package is the wrong tool to fix what’s still broken from Covid: the supply side.] 3-15-21
Coronavirus. “The Pub the Pandemic Couldn’t Kill.” By Matthew Hennessey. [McKeon’s survived the lockdowns and restrictions. Many of New York’s Irish bars weren’t so lucky. 3-16-21
Coronavirus. “Bigger Is Better When It Comes to Vaccine Production.” By Eric Budish and Christopher Snyder. [Churning out more doses may be expensive, but speeding up inoculations would be worth trillions.] 3-18-21
Coronavirus. “Capitalism Is What Will Defeat Covid.” (The Weekend Interview with Alex Gorsky by Allysia Finley.) [The vaccine revolution didn’t happen on its own. It’s a product of decades of planning and investment.] 3-20-21
Coronavirus. “Europe’s Gang That Couldn’t Shot Straight.” [A string of vaccine bungles threatens health and the global economy.] 3-20-21
Coronavirus. LTE. “Were the Lockdowns Worth the Heavy Costs?” 3-22-21
Coronavirus. “Where’s the Science Behind CDC’s 6-Foort Social-Distance Decree?” by Scott Gottlieb. [The new limit for schools is 3 feet. But the public is in the dark about the basis of these recommendations.] 3-22-21
Coronavirus. “The Dubious Origins of Long Covid.” By Jeremy Devine. [Echoes of chronic fatigue in the effort to blame the coronavirus for a host of questionable symptoms.] 3-23-21
Coronavirus. “After Covid, Services Are Where the Trade Action Is.” By James Bacchus. [The pandemic showcased the digital economy, where the U.S. has enormous comparative advantages.] 3-23-21
Coronavirus. “Herd Immunity Is Near, Despite Fauci’s Denial.” By Marty Makary. [His estimate that it’ll take a 70% to 85% vaccination rate ignores those who have already been infected.] 3-25-21
Coronavirus. “Pennsylvania Lawmakers Aim to Keep Tom Wolf at Bay.” By Jennifer Stefano. 3-27-21
Coronavirus. “Europe’s Covid Bill is Coming Due.” By Dominic Green. [EU leaders made unforced errors with the lockdowns and vaccine debacles. Their parties may pay.] 3-27-21
Coronavirus. “Watch Out for a Vaccine Patent Heist.” [The left wants Biden to force drug companies to give away their IP.] 3-29-21
Coronavirus. “Covid Lessons From Bush’s Effort Against AIDS.” [Pressured to break drug patents in 2004, he came up with a better plan, an example for Biden.] 3-29-21
Coronavirus. “Snowbirds Fly South for the Vaccine.” By Craig Offman. [Canada’s ineptitude prompts a migration of seniors to Florida.] 3-31-21
Coronavirus. “The Wuhan Whitewash.” [A WHO report on Covid’s origin echoes Chinese propaganda.] 3-31-21
Coronavirus. “The Science Behind ‘Long Covid’ and the Desire to Wish It Away.” By Yochai Re’em. [We’ve been burned before by attributing unexplained physical symptoms to psychological issues. 3-31-21
Coronavirus. “Corporate Covid ‘Windfall’ Are a Myth.” By Donald L. Luskin. [Some big companies rose to the occasion during the pandemic and did well. But there were losers too.] 4-1-21
Coronavirus. “An Auschwitz Survivor Dies in a New York Nursing Home.” By Faith Bottum. [At 94, Felicia Friedman succumbed to Covid-19 and bureaucratic bungling.] 4-1-21
Coronavirus. “U.K. Vaccination Puts U.S. to Shame.” By Marty Makary. [American authorities rejected advice to delay the second dose. Britain shows that approach’s wisdom.] 4-2-21
Coronavirus. “The Vaccine Jobs Boom Arrives.” [The best stimulus has turned out to be the shots in the arm.] 4-3-21
Coronavirus. “Dr. Fauci, Tear Off These Masks.” By Nicole Saphler. [If the epidemic continues on its current course, it will be safe to uncover your face by Memorial Day.] 4-3-21
Coronavirus. “Fourth Wave Targets the Young and Restless.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Evolution is not always the enemy. It will help turn the virus into something we can live with.] 4-3-21
Coronavirus. “Covid Arsenal Needs Pills as Well as Shots.” By Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan. [A drug that could prevent severe symptoms could help those who can’t or won’t get vaccinated.] 4-5-21
Coronavirus. “Vaccine Passports Prolong Lockdowns.” By Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya. [What looks like an easing of restrictions is actually a coercive scheme.] 4-7-21
Coronavirus. “Stop Taking Shots at Those Who Fear Them.” By Robert M. Kaplan. [Americans who worry about needles and side effects need comfort, not insults.] 4-9-21
Coronavirus. “YouTube’s Assault on Covid Accountability.” 4-9-21
Coronavirus. “No Reopening Please, We’re British.” By Joseph C. Sternberg. 4-9-21
Coronavirus. “Covid Provides a Rare Chance to Transform Public Education.” By Bobby Jindal and Joe Ricketts. [In post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana built a system that serves the needs of students, not adults.] 4-10-21
Coronavirus. “Free Exercise of Religion Court.” [The justices slap down another California pandemic order.] 4-12-21
Coronavirus. “The Case For Vaccine ‘Passports.’” By Scott Gottlieb. [Digital proof would allow Americans to visit family in the hospital, not keep folks out of restaurants.] 4-12-21
Coronavirus. “The J&J Covid Vaccine Pause.” [The issue is how best to address public anxiety over rare blood clots.] 4-14-21
Coronavirus. “Masks for Children, Muzzles for News.” By Jay Bhattacharya. [In the guise of combating ‘misinformation,’ YouTube again censors scientific debate over Covid-19.] 4-14-21
Coronavirus. “Cruise Ships in the DCD Dock.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [The entire industry is shut down in the U.S., while Europe and Asia are sailing again.] 4-16-21
Coronavirus. “Drug Safety Is FDA’s Job, Not CDC’s.” by Scott Gottlieb. [Clear lines of authority would make it easier to resolve the Johnson & Johnson complications.] 4-19-21
Coronavirus. “An American Epidemic of ‘Covid Mania.’” By Joseph A. Ladapo. [The problem isn’t only the overreacton to the virus but the diminution of every other problem. 4-20-21
Coronavirus. “Covid Relief Makes Help Impossible to Find.” By Jillian Day Melchior. [Congress’s unemployment benefit makes it more remunerative not to work. Employers are struggling.] 4-24-21
Coronavirus. “Sen. Coons vs. the Vaccine Thieves.” [A Democrat rebuts the claims of those who want to steal U.S. IP.] 4-24-21
Coronavirus. “Time to End Outdoor Mask Edicts.” By Scott Gottlieb. [The CDC is moving too slowly in updating its advice to comport with the scientific evidence.] 4-26-21
Coronavirus. “Take Off Your Mask and Go Outside.” By Daniel Halperin and Monica Gandhi. [The CDC’s guidance is too restrictive. If it isn’t crowded, it’s safe to show your face.] 4-29-21
Coronavirus. “India’s Covid Crisis Could Reach You Too.” By Sadanand Dhume. [As the coronavirus rages inside its borders, new variants threaten to spread around the world.] 4-30-21
Coronavirus. “Want to Go Back to the Office? Don’t Wait on CDC.” By Scott Gottlieb and Caitlin Rivers. [Businesses should band together and formulate flexible guidance suitable to their own industries.] 5-3-21
Coronavirus. “A Pandemic Of Experts.” (Bookshelf by Barton Swaim.) “The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.” By Michael Lewis. [A band of experts saw that Covid-19 was more dangerous than U.S. leaders acknowledged. Would their advice have made a difference?] 5-4-21
Coronavirus. “Youth Pay a High Price for Covid Protection.” By Charles I. Hooper and David R Henderson. [Leaders’ greatest failure was not focusing on the elderly, who had lower costs and far greater benefits.] 5-4-21
Coronavirus. “The Centers for Politics and Unions.” [Randi Weingarten gets the CDC to change its school opening guidance.] 5-5-21
Coronavirus. “Teachers Unons’ Covid Cop-Outs Are a Winning Issue for GOP.” By Jason L. Riley. [Republicans should campaign hard in 2022 on Democratic obeisance to the AFT and NEA.] 5-5-21
Coronavirus. “American Health Depends on Exporting Covid Vaccines.” By Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Joseph S. Nye. [Supply exceeds demand at home, and viral variants could eventually defeat the inoculations.] 5-5-21
Coronavirus. “’Stakeholder Capitalism’ Caused the Oxford Vaccine Debacle.” By Matthew Lesh. [University scientists insisted nobody profit; now AstraZeneca can’t meet its commitment.] 5-6-21
Coronavirus. [Another Judge Evicts the CDC.” [Health Bureaucrats can’t lawfully ban evictions, but do politicians care?] 5-7-21
Coronavirus. “End Mask Mandates to Spur Vaccination.” By Marc Siegel. 5-7-21
Coronavirus. “Patent Busting Won’t Help Vaccinate the World Faster.” By Luciana Borio and Scott Gottlieb. [The solution is to ease restrictions on exporting shot and build more production capacity.] 5-10-21
Coronavirus. “Randi Weingarten Sees the Light.” [The teachers union chief finally says schools can open – next fall.] 5-15-21
Coronavirus. “Elizabeth Warren Tells the Truth.” [She admits the vaccine patent waiver is about stealing all pharma I.P.] 5-17-21
Coronavirus. “Moderation on Masks Might Make More Get a Shot.” By Scott Gottlieb. [Many unvaccinated Americans Aren’t ‘antivaxxers,’ but need incentive and information.] 5-17-21
Coronavirus. “U.S. Can Stop the Pandemic and Counter China.” By Ben Sasse. [Vaccine diplomacy would save lives, bolster national security, and help everyone but the Communist Party.] 5-18-21
Coronavirus. “Face Masks and the First Amendment.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and James Taranto. [They’re become a form of political expression. That makes mandates constitutionally suspect.] 5-19-21
Coronavirus. “Biden Gets a Real Vaccine Job.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [Instead of coasting along on Operation Warp Speed, he needs to vaccinate the world for global security.] 5-22-21
Coronavirus. “Beat Tomorrow’s Pandemic Today.” By Scott Gottlieb. [This is a good time to start building up capacity to fight the next novel pathogen.] 5-24-21
Coronavirus. “The Virus Lab Theory’s New Credibility.” [The evidence catches up to Fauci and other Wuhan leak deniers.] 5-27-21
Coronavirus. “The Americans Who Can’t Get Vaccines.” By Michael George DeSombre and Scott Brown. [The U.S. has enough shots to go around. But what if you live in another country?] 5-28-21
Coronavirus. “How to Save the Olympics.” [It’s Tokyo’s decision, but Washington can do more to help.] 5-28-21
Coronavirus. “Wuhan Lab Theory Is a Media Warning.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The news business is headed for trouble if it won’t control its biases as other professions do.] 5-29-21
Coronavirus. “Joe Biden’s Covid ‘Science.’” By Wm. McGurn. [His desire to do the opposite of Trump on everything is one cause of his mistakes.] 6-1-21
Coronavirus. “Stopping Racial Bias in Covid Relief.” [“The Biden Administration’s effort to distribute federal benefits by race is already running into legal trouble…”] 6-1-21
Coronavirus. “Vaccine Slowdown Isn’t Cause for Alarm.” By Joel Zinberg. [ The vulnerable elderly got the shots first. Of course demand has been declining.] 6-2-21
Coronavirus. “Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan Lab.” [Emails add to the mystery over U.S. funds for risky research.] 6-4-21
Coronavirus. “The World Needs Answers on Covid’s Origin.” By David Asher. [China wants the issue to go away. The U.S. should use all of its tools to keep the pressure on Beijing.] 6-4-21
Coronavirus. “Fauci Email Bolsters the Lab-Leak Theory.” [A top scientist said the virus couldn’t have evolved naturally – then reversed his position weeks later.] 6-5-21
Coronavirus. “The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak.” By Steven Quay and Richard Muller. [The Covid-19 pathogen has a genetic footprint that has never been observed in a natural Coronavirus.] 6-7-21
Coronavirus. “America’s Covid Groupthink Functioned Like China’s Repression.] by Gerard Baker. [Marching in ideological lockstep is less forgivable in a society where one has a choice in the matter.] 6-8-21
Coronavirus. “The Power of Natural Immunity.” By Marty Makary. [Studies show it’s durable an widespread. If you’ve had Covid, you can get by with one shot of vaccine.] 6-9-21
Coronavirus. “Two Cheers for Biden’s Vaccine Donation.” [Turns out he doesn’t have to break patents to distribute shots.] 6-11-21
Coronavirus. “The Pandemic’s Toll on Teen Mental Health.” By Monica Gandhi and Jeanne Noble. [The CDC tried to spark a panic about Covid hospitalizations while ignoring the real crisis.] 6-11-21
Coronavirus. “A Scientist Who Said No to Covid Groupthink.” (The Weekend Interview with Filippa Lentzos by Adam O’Neal.) [Many experts aggressively denied a lab leak was possible and only now admit it. It took courage to make the case a year ago.] 6-12-21
Coronavirus. “Understanding China’s Covid Propaganda.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Beijing wants questions unresolved so it can sell its people on the foreign-origin possibility.] 6-12-21
Coronavirus. “WHO’s on First – Again?” [The G-7 statement on Covid’s origin is feckless multilateralism.] 6-14-21
Coronavirus. “Beijing Protests a Lab Leak Too Much.” By Perry Link. [Strong evidence the virus escaped: the Communist Party’s vicious attacks on anyone who speaks out.] 6-14-21
Coronavirus. “College Students Aren’t Guinea Pigs.” By Aaron Kheriaty and Gerard V. Bradley. [University Covid vaccine mandates are a violation of medical ethics.] 6-15-21
Coronavirus. “Covid Didn’t Start the Mental-Health Crisis.” By Erica Komisar. [The devaluing of parental care leaves society – and its children – unprepared to deal with stressful events.] 6-17-21
Coronavirus. “Why Shutdowns and Masks Suit the Elite.” (The Weekend Interview with O. Carter Snead by Baron Swaim.) [Covid restrictions seem less onerous from the standpoint of ‘’expressive individualism,’ which defines the self in terms of ‘its will and not its body.’] 6-19-21
Coronavirus. “Maskless Among the Lemmings.” By Andy Kessler. [Forty-nine out of 50 Trader Joe’s shoppers cover their faces, even when not required to.] 6-21-21
Coronavirus. “Dr. Fauci and the Mask Disaster.” [What we really needed was intelligent advice on when and how transmission occurs.] 6-23-21
Coronavirus. “Are Covid Vaccines Riskier Than Advertised?” by Joseph A. Ladapo and Harvey A Risch. [There are concerning trends on blood clots and low platelets, not that the authorities will tell you.] 6-23-21
Coronavirus. “The CDC’s Eternal Emergency.” 6-25-21
Coronavirus. “India’s Covid Curve Could Raise the World’s.” by Sadanand Dhume. [As the country picks up speed in its race to herd immunity, stumbling may mean a dangerous variant.] 6-25-21
Coronavirus. “A Covid Commission Americans Can Trust.” By Martin Rulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya. [The country has lost faith in experts, but a thorough review free from conflicts of interest could help.] 6-28-21
Coronavirus. “Sophistry At Duke In Defense of Masks.” By Tom Nicholson. [A baseless conclusion about Covid in schools flows from an elementary error of logic.] 7-9-21
Coronavirus. “It’s 98 Degree Out. Why Is My Child Wearing a Mask?” by Ashely E. McGuire. [She’s 9, and she came home looking ill after three hours of tennis. This has no scientific justification.] 7-10-21
Coronavirus. “Vaccine Polarization Is Partisanship at Its Dumbest.” By Gerard Baker. [Last fall Kamala Harris said she wouldn’t trust a shot that was authorized before the election.] 7-13-21
Coronavirus. “Realism About Vaccine Hesitancy.” By Holman W. Jenkins. [Hyperbolic Fox anchors at least recognize the law of diminishing returns. 7-14-21
Coronavirus. “Stealing From Drug Makers Is No Way to Vaccinate the World.” By Tomas J. Philipson and Joel Zinberg. [Wealthy governments should pick up the tab for shots in poor countries, which benefit everyone.] 7-15-21Coronavirus. “A Covid Vaccine Crossroads.” [You can oppose state mandates but still favor mass vaccination.] 7-16-21
Coronavirus. “Reassuring Data on the Delta Variant.” By Leslie Bienen and Monica Gandhi. [There’s no sign of a surge in hospitalization or severe illness, and the vaccines remain extremely effective.] 7-16-21
Coronavirus. “Progressives Punish ‘Honorary Whites’ but Aren’t Helping Blacks.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The bizarre antiwhite racism of the president’s pandemic programs is just part of the show.] 7-17-21
Coronavirus. “We’ll Always Have Covid.” [The Delta variant spooks markets, but the vaccines work even if the virus won’t go away.] 7-20-21
Coronavirus. “Facebook Is Biden’s Vaccine Scapegoat.” [Democrats attack tech firms to deflect from Covid setbacks. 7-20-21
Coronavirus. “The Flimsy Evidence Behind the CDC’s Push to Vaccinate Children.” By Marty Makary. [The agency overcounts Covid hospitalizations and deaths and won’t consider if one shot is sufficient.] 7-20-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Canadian Covid Blockade.” [The U.S. again delays reopening the border to our northern friends.] 7-23-21
Coronavirus. “Anthony Fauci, Rand Paul and Wuhan.” [Americans who dismissed the lab-leak theory have a conflict of interest.] 7-26-21
Coronavirus. “Covid Mania Returns Australia to Its Roots as a Nation of Prisoners.” By James Morrow. [Citizens in Sydney may leave their homes only for “essential” purposes and not go more than six miles.] 7-26-21
Coronavirus. “Who Wants to Mask Up for Delta?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [A new variant invites a rethink of our bumpy road to Covid being a low-risk nuisance.] 7-28-21
Coronavirus. “To Mandate or Not to Mandate Vaccines.” [The FDA should move faster on final approval to reassure the public.] 7-28-21
Coronavirus. “Covid Is the 21^st Century’s Sputnik.” By Michael Milken. “The space race spawned Darpa. The Pandemic proved we need an agency for health innovation.] 7-28-21
Coronavirus. “Why Not Use Unspent Covid Cash?” 7-28-21
Coronavirus. “Covid Will Increase Life Expectancy.” By David Colander. [Last week’s bad news reflects a failure to understand statistics.] 7-29-21
Coronavirus. “The Cost of the School Shutdowns.” [A new McKinsey study documents the severe student learning loss.] 7-29-21
Coronavirus. “Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?” [Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment and prophylaxis, but the agency is denigrating it.] 7-29-21
Coronavirus. “The CDC’s Delta Variant Panic.” [The agency spreads needless worry about vaccinations.] 7-31-21
Coronavirus. “Maybe With Delta the CDC Will Learn to Count.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [In Britain, they know 92% of the public has antibodies; here we panic in the dark.] 7-31-21
Coronavirus. “The Rental Evictions Fiasco.” [Democrats want an emergency measure to last forever.] 8-2-21
Coronavirus. “Masks Are a Covid Distraction.” By Wm. McGurn. [The CDC should scrap its confusing guidance and make vaccination the only priority.] 8-3-21
Coronavirus. “Capitalist Solution to a Globalist Pandemic.” By Walter Russell Mead. [International bodies have made Covid worse, while Big Pharma saved the day.” 8-3-21
Coronavirus. “The Coming Eviction Crisis.” By Wm. A. Galston. [States, localities, the Biden administration and congress all deserve some blame.] 8-4-21
Coronavirus. “The Eviction Ban Has to End Sometime.” [Tenants and landlords have to work it out, and better now than later.] 8-4-21
Coronavirus. “Your Vaccine Papers, Please.” [New Yok’s mayor will punish you until you get the Covid-19 shot.] 8-4-21
Coronavirus. “A False Narrative About ‘Misinformation.” By Robert M. Kaplan. [The evidence suggests it has little effect on vaccine acceptance.] 8-4-21
Coronavirus. “If Biden Is Serious About Covid, He’ll Protect the Border.” “The government releases migrants, untested, to live in tight spaces alongside scores of strangers.] 8-4-21
Coronavirus. “President Biden’s Lawless Eviction Ban.” [Where‘s the uproar about the erosion of democratic norms.?] 8-5-21
Coronavirus. “Eradication of Covid Is a Dangerous and Expensive Fantasy.” By Jay Bhattacharya and Donald J. Boudreaux. [It seemed to work in New Zealand and Australia, but now ruinous, oppressive lockdowns are back.] 8-5-21
Coronavirus. “Could the Covid Vaccine (and Others) Prevent Alzheimer’s?” by Allysia Finley. [There’s growing evidence that inoculation confers significant protective benefits.] 8-6-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Eviction Ban goes Back to Court.” [The plaintiffs have fun quoting the White House against itself.] 8-7-21
Coronavirus. “Why I’m suing Over My Employer’s Vaccine Mandate.” By Todd Zywicki. [I have natural immunity, so there’ no justification for a coercive violation of my bodily autonomy.] 8-7-21
Coronavirus. “Does the U.S. Want the Lab-Leak Truth?” by Holman W. Jenkins, jr. [It’s hard to see political upside from anything but intelligence agency shoulder-shrugging.] 8-7-21
Coronavirus. “The Case Against Masks for Children.” By Marty Makary and H. Cody Meissner. [It’s abusive to force kids who struggle with them to sacrifice for the sake of unvaccinated adults.] 8-9-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s ‘Gamesmanship’ on Evictions.” 8-10-21
Coronavirus. “Government Failure Gave the World Covid.” By Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas J. Philipson. [And markets provided the remedy. Economists don’t always appreciate how often that happens.] 8-10-21
Coronavirus. “Florida Calls a Truce in the Mask Wars.” By Wm.. Mattox. [An existing school-choice program lets parents decide what’s best for their kids.] 8-11-21
Coronavirus. “Covid and a Tale of Two Summer Festivals.” By Bob Greene. [In Wisconsin, burgers are back. Butterflies will have to wait.] 8-13-21
Coronavirus. “Bring on the Covid Vaccine Boosters.” [The mask wars are a political distraction. More shots are needed.] 8-13-21
Coronavirus. “The Vulnerable Pay the Price for Covid Eviction Moratoriums.” By Jillian Kay Melchior. [The government set out to help small businesses but left landlords at the mercy of abusive tenants.] 8-14-21
Coronavirus. “Covid Anxiety and Fear of the Base.” By Peggy Noonan. [Americans need to be more tactful and understanding when it comes to measures like masks and vaccines.] 8-14-21
Coronavirus. “The World Needs to Know What Happened at the Wuhan Lab.” By Rob’t Redfield and Marc Siegel. [Was the coronavirus manipulated to infect humans? If so, that will inform our response.] 8-16-21
Coronavirus. “Follow Your Nose to Herd Immunity.” By Michael Segal. [The biology behind ‘breakthrough’ cases and the confusing CDC mask guidance.] 8-17-21
Coronavirus. “Three Cheers for Vaccine Boosters.” [Biden is right to ignore criticism from the WHO on a third mRNA shot.] 8-19-21
Coronavirus. “Unemployment Benefits Forever?” [Treasury suggests how states can continue the incentives not to work.] 8-21-21
Coronavirus. “Delta’s Gift Is Hybrid Immunity.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [One senator at a time, a new variant is bracing up our vaccinated immune systems against new Covid.] 8-21-21
Coronavirus. “A Better Way to Encourage Vaccination.” By Richard Manger. [Lecturing and moral superiority aren’t working. Healthcare workers should try humility and respect.] 8-23-21
Coronavirus. “Let the Spooks Speak on Covid.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The spy agencies can tell us a lot even if they can’t nail down the virus’s origins.] 8-25-21
Coronavirus. “Let Lawyers Hun for Covid’s Origin.” By Mike Pompeo and David B. Rivkin Jr. [The report from the intelligence community is equivocal, but spies don’t have subpoena power.] 8-27-21
Coronavirus. “Justice Kavanaugh Replies to Mr. Biden.” [A 6-3 Supreme Court tosses the President’s lawless eviction ban.] 8-29-21
Coronavirus. “The Covid Origin Muddle.” [The intel community’s firmest judgment is that China covered up.] 8-29-21
Coronavirus. “Masks Turn Democrats in Favor of School Choice.” By Corey A. DeAngelis. [A poll finds 82% favor private alternatives when public districts don’t mandate face coverings.] 9-1-21
Coronavirus. “The Covid Booster Debate.” [The case is string for a third shot, never mind the political motives.] 9-4-21
Coronavirus. “Colleges Violate their Promises to Vaccinated Students.” By Leslie Bienen. [Students who got the shots to help others are ordered to wear masks outside and stay out of restaurants.] 9-4-21
Coronavirus. “Is Moderna the Tortoise in the Vaccine Race?” by Marc Siegel. [It seems to be more effective than Pfizer, perhaps because of the later second shot.] 9-7-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Vaccine Command.” [Thou shalt be inoculated or risk losing your job.] 9-11-21
Coronavirus. “With Biden’s Vaccine Plan, Politics Is Fully in Charge.” By Holman W Jenkins, Jr. [Lumping 75 million unvaccinated Americans into one category is wedge partisanship, not science.] 9-11-21
Coronavirus. “Covid Confusion at the CDC.” By Marty Makary. [Decisions on boosters relied on data from Israel. Why isn’t the U.S. producing this research?” 9-14-21
Coronavirus. “Let the Courts Speak on Covid.” By Homan W. Jenkins, Jr [The Biden Vaccine mandates can bring out basic truths about the pandemic.] 9-15-21
Coronavirus. “Tested and Found Wanting.” (Bookshelf by alex Tabarrok.) “Uncontrolled Spread.” By Scott Gottlieb. [A former Food and Dru Administration commissioner surveys what went wrong with America’s response to the Covid pandemic.] 9-15-21
Coronavirus. “The Case for Boosters Is Strong.” By Allysia Finley. [Severe Covid infections that aren’t defeated quickly can lead to long-lasting complications.] 9-15-21
Coronavirus. “Vaccine Mandates Can’t Stop Covid’s Spread.” By Joseph A. Ladapo. [Coercion won’t work because those without symptoms can still pass on infection.] 9-17-21
Coronavirus. “How Renters Made Out in the Pandemic.” [A new Biden report shows the eviction ban wasn’t needed.] 9-21-21
Coronavirus. “It Took Years to Reach Warp Speed.” By Eric D. Hargan and Robert Kadlee. [The effort that yielded Covid vaccines in record time was born in the wake of the 2001 anthrax attack. ] 9-25-21
Coronavirus. “Rochell Walensky’s Finest Hour.” [ The CDC chief made the right call on Covid booster shots.] 9-25-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Lawless Vaccine Mandate.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Robert Alt. [OSHA’s job is to promote safe workplaces, not to dictate medical decisions to employees.] 9-29-21
Coronavirus. “Judges Prevent a Covid Insurance Raid.” By Randy Maniloff. [Business-interruption policies clearly don’t cover losses from lockdown restrictions.] 9-30-21
Coronavirus. “Covid will Soon Be Endemic, Thank Goodness.” By Monica Gandhi. [Widespread immunity, vaccinated and natural, will bring control and a full return to normal.] 10-1-21
Coronavirus. “There May Soon Be a Covid Pill.” [Big Pharma comes to the pandemic rescue one more time.] 10-2-21
Coronavirus. “Unlearned AIDS Lessons for Covid.” By John Tierney. [In the 1980s, Fauci and Redfield sowed fear about a heterosexual epidemic that never happened.] 10-4-21
Coronavirus. “Science Closes In on Covid’s Origins.” By Richard Muller and Steven Quay. [Four studies – including two from WHO – provide powerful evidence favoring the lab-leak theory.] 10-6-21
Coronavirus. “FDA Can Save Thousands of Lives today.” By Marty Makary. [‘Compassionate use’ of molnupiravir would dramatically reduce Covid-19’s toll.] 10-8-21
Coronavirus. “At Sea in the Age of Covid Anxiety.” By Katrina Gullever. [Cruise lines require masks and PCR tests, though al passengers are vaccinated. It’s even worse on shore.] 10-11-21Coronavirus. “Who Slowed Merck’s Covid Remedy?” by Allysia Finley. [A ‘whistleblower,’ not Trump officials, delayed funding for molnupiravir.] 10-11-21
Coronavirus. “Vaccine Mandate Madness.” [Biden’s needless order is hurting workers and feeding polarization.] 10-13-21
Coronavirus. “Beijing Looks Set to Repeat Tokyo’s Olympic Mistakes..” by Jonathan Kolatch [A relaxed approach would be in China’s interest but goes against the grain for the Communist Party.] 10-14-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Vaccine Double-Cross.” [Officials thank Moderna for saving lives by making it a scapegoat.] 10-15-21
Coronavirus. “Where Are the Wuhan Subpoenas? [US. funding for risky Chinese virus research deserves investigation.] 10-28-21
Coronavirus. “Covid-19 Boosters Aren’t for Everyone.” By Michael Segal. [If you’re healthy and young, a third shot gives no benefit, so it isn’t worth even the small risk.] 11-4-21
Coronavirus. “Vaccine Mandate Overkill.” [OSHA’s 490-page rule is unnecessary and needlessly divisive.] 11-5-21
Coronavirus. “Forced Covid Vaccination For Kids Is Unlawful.” By Jenin Younes. [Statutes confer a clear right to refuse the shots before full FDA approval.] 11-10-21
Coronavirus. “Should You Vaccinate Your 5-Year-old.?” By Nicole Saphier and Marty Makary. [Be reassured that whatever you do, the risk is extremely low.] 11-9-21
Coronavirus. “An Illegal Vaccine Mandate.” [An appellate court blocks OSHA in a withering rebuke.] 11-15-21
Coronavirus. [Ganging Up on Moderna.” [The feds want to take underserved credit for a Covid Vaccine patent.] 11-17-21
Coronavirus. “America Slowly Learns o Live With Covid.” By Peggy Noonan. [Shots are an achievement but not a miracle, and other realities with which we’re coming to terms.] 11-20-21
Coronavirus. “Left Betrays Working Class on Covid Mandates.” By Ted Rall. [Some unions are even siding with management against employees who resist vaccination.] 11-22-21
Coronavirus. “Yes, You Should Get a Covid Booster.” By Marc Siegel. [Vaccine effectiveness is waning. A third shot restores it with few side effects.] 11-23-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Covid Death Milestone.” [More Americans have died of the virus in 20121 than in all of 2020.] 11-26-21
Coronavirus. “The Omicron Variant Panic.” [Markets fall, but the biggest danger is more government lockdowns.] 11-27-21
Coronavirus. “Is This a ‘Normal’ Covid Winter?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Today’s surge would be worse if individuals and states hadn’t ignored Biden restrictions on boosters.] 11-27-21
Constitution. “The Letter And the Spirit.” (Bookshelf by Raymond Kethledge.) “The Original Meaning of the 14^th Amendment.” By Randy E. Barnett and Evan D. Bernick. [Does the wording of the 14^th Amendment lend itself to claims that judges must ‘find rights that are not specified in the Constitution?] 11-30-21
Coronavirus. “The Omicron Non-Emergency.” [Vaccine mandates are hurting hospitals, as a judge blocks Biden’s.] 11-30-21
Coronavirus. “Where Did That IMF Covid Cash Go?” by DJ Nordquist and Dan Katz. [Iran got $5 billion, but the world’s poor countries aren’t benefitting from ‘special drawing rights.’] 11-30-21
Coronavirus. “Decoding the Omicron Panic.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Covid overkill is bad for everybody except the politicians.] 12-1-21
Coronavirus. “Omicron Reinfects Government.” By Daniel Henninger. [Covid strategy needs a midcourse correction. It got Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate.] 12-2-21
Coronavirus. “A Vaccine Mandate Puts Patients at Risk.” By Seema Verma. [Washington’s threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding is likely to do more harm than good.] 12-2-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Covid Quagmire.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [He can’t keep his promise to ‘beat’ the virus. Can he escape it before it’s too late?] 12-3-21
Coronavirus. “Covid-19 and the Right to Travel.” By Eugene Kontorovich. [Bans and quarantines are constitutionally suspect when applied against U.S. citizens.] 12-3-21
Coronavirus. “Madrid, the City That Wouldn’t Lock Down.” By Adam O’Neal. [Isabel Diaz Ayuso called for freedom, kept the regional economy going, and won big at the polls.] 12-3-21
Coronavirus. “The Vast Promise of mRNA Technology.” By Allysia Finley. [The covid vaccine platform offers real hope for treating many other diseases, including cancer. How an immigrant from Hungary played a prominent scientific role.] 12-4-21
Coronavirus. “What Spreads Faster Than Covid? Vaccination.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Our last pointless ideological fight may be over whether the vaccinated are spreaders.] 12-4-21
Coronavirus. “Omicron: Keep Calm and Carry On.” By Marc Siegel. [‘Mutation’ sounds scary, but mutations can make a pathogen less dangerous.] 12-7-21
“Coronavirus. “Remote Learning Fails the Test.” [New research finds student scores fell more sharply where virtual learning was prevalent.] 12-7-21
Coronavirus. “Biden Finds a Culprit for America’s Crime Wave: Covid-19.” By Gerard Baker. [The White House calls the virus a ‘root cause’ in an effort to shift blame from perpetrators and policies.] 12-7-21
Coronavirus. “About All Those Pandemic Billionaires.” [Thomas Piketty shows how government stoked wealth inequality.] 12-9-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Wipeout.” [The Administration ignored the law. It is getting crushed in court.] 12-10-21
Coronavirus. “Omicron Meets Our Policy Mess.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Americans are having to adapt instinctively because they are led and informed badly.] 12-15-21
Coronavirus. “How Covid Changed the American Workforce.” By Wm. A. Galston. [Companies are racing to automate, as older workers and parents work less or quit.] 12-15-21
Coronavirus. “Educators Inspired Amid Covid.” [The $1 million STOP Award goes to a museum that became a school.] 12-15-21
Coronavirus. “Pfizer’s Latest Covid Breakthrough.” [The company’s antiviral pill is the best therapeutic news so far.] 12-15-21
Coronavirus. “Back to the Office in 2022.” By Andy Kessler. [We crave contact with co-workers, but we’ve lost our tolerance for life’s inconveniences.] 12-20-21
Coronavirus. “The Fickle ‘Science’ of Lockdowns.” By Phillip W. Magness and Peter C. Earle. [Experts foresaw before Covid that the strategy would fail. The authorities embraced it anyway.] 12-20-21
Coronavirus. “The Supreme Court’s Covid Vaccine Test.” [Justices have to decide if they want to let OSHA rewrite the law.] 12-21-21
Coronavirus. “NFL vs. Covid Magical Thinking.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [Football is showing society how to live with the reality of asymptomatic spread.] 11-22-21
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Omicron Reality Check.” [The President hits a calmer note and rejects lockdowns.] 12-22-21
Coronavirus. “How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Debate.” [They worked with the media to trash the Great Barrington Declaration.] 12-22-21
Coronavirus. “The Dangerous Push to Give Boosters to Teens.” By Marty Makary. [FDA and CDC experts said the plan was ill-advised, so the agencies cut them out of the decision process.] 12-22-21
Coronavirus. “Big Parma Success, Government Failure.” [The U.S. ordered too few courses of the new and promising Covid pills.] 12-24-21
Coronavirus. “Florida’s Plague Is the Media’s Cold.” By Karl Markowicz. 12-24-21
Coronavirus. “Biden on Covid: ‘No Federal Solution.’” [If this is what he thinks, then rescind OSHA’s vaccine mandate.] 12-28-21
Coronavirus. “Coercion Made the Pandemic Worse.” By David R. Henderson and Charles L. Hooper. [Freedom is the central component of the best problem-solving system ever devised.] 12-28-21
Coronavirus. “South Africa Sets a Covid Example.” By Marc Siegal. [The now-lifted U.S. travel ban sent an unfortunate message.] 12-29-21
Coronavirus. “The Great Pandemic Migration.” [Census data reveal huge shifts out of the most locked-down states.] 12-29-21
Coronavirus. “Is Fluvoximine the Covid Drug We’re Been Waiting For?” By Allysia Finley. [A 10-day treatment costs only $4 and appears to greatly reduce symptoms, hospitalization and death.] 12-29-21
Coronavirus. “The CDC Sees a Great Light.” [The shorter isolation period balances public health and the economy.] 12-30-21
Coronavirus. “The T-Cell Covid Cavalry.” [Two studies suggest this line of defense reduces Omicron’s severity.] 12-31-21
Coronavirus. “Gov. Hochul Will tell You If You’re ‘Essential.’” By Eugene Konorovich. [If it’s safe enough for a bartender to return to work after fived days, it’s safe enough for anybody.] 12-31-21
Coronavirus. “Pandemic Isolation Sows a Gardening Boom.” By George Ball. [Cut off from society, Americans found a green new world in the backyard.] 1-4-22
Coronavirus. “Covid Should Revive School Vouchers as a Liberal Cause.” By Mark Brilliant and Steven Davidoff Solomon. [A 1970 proposal would base grants on income, equalizing opportunity for the rich and poor.] 1-4-22
Coronavirus. “I Got Covid on a Cruise. I’d Take Another.” By Dave Seminars. [It’s a delightful way to travel, and you can still get sick at home.] 1-5-22
Coronavirus. “Supreme Stakes on Vaccine Mandates.” [The Court’s ruling will echo far beyond the current pandemic.] 1-7-22
Coronavirus. “Remote Instruction Is Bad for Mom and Dad.” By Corey A. DeAngelis and Christos A. Makridis. [When schools forced kids to stay home, parents reported an uptick in mental-health issues.] 1-7-22
Coronavirus. “The Endless Loop of Covid-19.” By Peggy Noonan. [The current moment is much like 20 months ago. It is no governmental triumph that this is so.] 1-8-22
Coronavirus. “New York’s Race-Based Preferential Covid Treatments.” By John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira. [New guidelines say whites may not be eligible for antibodies and antivirals, while nonwhites are.] 1-8-22
Coronavirus. “Omicron Makes Biden’s Mandates Obsolete.” By Lue Montagnier and Jed Rubenfeld. [There is no evidence so far that vaccines are reducing infections from the fast-spreading variant.] 1-10-22
Coronavirus. “Slow the Spread? Speeding It May Be Safer.” By Vivek Ramaswamy and Apoorva Ramaswamy. [Tamping down an Omicron may increase the risk of an ‘antigenic shift’ to a far deadlier supervariant.] 1-11-22
Coronavirus. “A Deceptive Covid Study Unmasked.” By Jay Bhattacharya and Tom Nicholson. [Duke researchers look at transmission in schools and end up reinforcing their prior assumptions.] 1-12-22
Coronavirus. “Omicron Has Killed Certitude.” By Daniel Henninger. [People no longer care what government or ‘science’ tells them about Covid-19.] 1-13-22
Coronavirus. “Conservatives for Abusive Lawsuits.” By Sherman Joyce. [Lawmakers shouldn’t make it easier for employees to sue over vaccine mandates.] 1-13-22
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Operation Snail Speed.” [Less than 1% of $1.9 trillion in Covid relief cash went for therapies.] 1-13-22
Coronavirus. “A Split Decision on Vaccine Mandates.” [At least the Court struck down OSHA’s overreach on private employers.] 1-14-22
Coronavirus. “Political Scandals Are the Exit From Covid Coercion.” By Joseph C. Sternberg. [Quietly ending lockdowns as voters get to scream at a scapegoat is far easier than saying they were a waste.] 1-14-22
Coronavirus. “Universities Breach Their Contracts.” By Max Schanzenbach and Nadav Shoked. [Students have legal recourse against unreasonable Covid restrictions.] 1-14-22
Coronavirus. “Florida Is Living With Covid – and Freedom.” (The Weekend Interview with Joseph A Ladapo.) [The State’s surgeon general on his advice against tests for the asymptomatic, his opposition to vaccination mandates, and life in Los Angeles under lockdown.] 1-15-22
Coronavirus. “Herd Immunity Is Over – Long Live Superimmunity.” By Allysia Finley. [The Omicron wave will leave most people with potent and durable protection against Covid.] 1-18-22
Coronavirus. “An Economic Evaluation of Covid Lockdowns.” By Tomas J. Philipson. [The costs of prevention efforts have outweighed those from the direct effects of the virus itself.] 1-20-22
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Pointless Vaccine Mandate.” 1-22-22
Coronavirus. “Exercise Is Good for You, Even if You Have a Mild Case of Covid.” By Allysia Finley. [The seven- to 10-day rest recommendation appears to be as arbitrary as the 6-foot social distancing one.] 1-24-22
Coronavirus. “Treasury Bullies Arizona on Masks.” [The Grand Canyon State is fighting back against funding blackmail.] 1-25-22
Coronavirus. “Omicron Is Spreading. Resistance Is Futile.” By Daniel Halperin. [The good news is that the variant’s mildness makes preventing infection much less of a priority.] 1-25-22
Coronavirus. “The High Cost of Disparaging Natural Immunity.” By Marty Makary. [Vaccines were wasted on those who didn’t need them, and people who posed no risk lost jobs.] 1-27-22
Coronavirus. “Another Covid Relief Bill?” 2-1-22
Coronavirus. “Operation Warp Speed Slowly Gets Its Due.” By Alysia Finley. [The programs premature abandonment left the country unprepared for the Delta and Omicron waves.] 2-1-22
Coronavirus. “Covid Overreach Brings America Toward a Libertarian Moment.” By Gerard Baker. [Trillion-dollar spending, onerous regulations and even censorship haven’t ended the pandemic.] 2-1-22
Coronavirus. “Spotify and Rogan, the Real Adults.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The company meets the aging rockers halfway, but it’s not good enough for them.” 2-2-22
Coronavirus. “Covid and the ‘Hygiene Hypothesis.’” By Eran Bendavid. [Measures like masking and social distancing may be doing long-term damage to our immune systems.] 2-2-22
Coronavirus. “End the Covid Panic Now.” By Daniel Henninger. [Biden should declare the pandemic is over, so Americans can return to normal lives.] 2-3-22
Coronavirus. “Revolt of the Canadian Truckers. “By Michael Taube. [A convoy protesting Covid restrictions has galvanized the country and drawn millions in donations.] 2-3-22
Coronavirus. “The High Cost of ‘Free’ Covid Testing.” By Cameron Kaplan. [Insurance has to pay for it with no limits. What could go wrong?] 2-4-22
Coronavirus. “Covid Patients Suffer as Bureaucrats Try to Practice Medicine.” By Joel Zinberg. [As Omicron spread, HHS took control of monoclonal antibodies and imposed had decisions nationwide.] 2-8-22
Coronavirus. “Canada’s Trucker Protest.” [Their message is that it’s time for the pandemic emergency orders to end.] 2-9-22
Coronavirus. “Time to End the Covid Emergency.” By Harvey Risch. [Between Omicron’s rise, layered immunity, and therapies, it’s safe to treat the virus like the flu.] 2-10-22
Coronavirus. “The New Ked on the Covid-Vaccine Block.” By Marc Siegel. [Novavax, up for FDA authorization, will be a good booster option.] 2-15-22
Coronavirus. “In the Anglosphere, Freedom Isn’t Quite Dead.” By Marion Smith. [The acceptance of Covid restrictions was difficult to watch. But even Canadians are fighting back now.] 2-17-22
Coronavirus. “Catholic Schools’ Good Covid Year.” [Staying open during the pandemic paid off in growing enrollment.] 2-18-22
Coronavirus. “The School Shutdowns and Lost Literacy.” 2-25-22
Coronavirus. “The Perpetual Covid ‘Emergency.’” By Allysia Finley. [Too many governors won’t give up their new power despite the ebbing health threat.] 3-1-22
Coronavirus. “Biden’s Half-Baked Covid Treatment Plan.” By Henry I. Miller. [‘Test to Treat’ ignores the significant risk of drug interactions.] 3-4-22
Coronavirus. “New York City Keeps Masking Toddlers.” By Karol Markowicz. [The school system’s policy is an exercise in senseless cruelty.] 3-9-22
Coronavirus. “I Covered My Face, and I’m Ashamed.” By Rebecca Sugar. [Compliance is the reason we still have mask mandates.] 3-15-22
Coronavirus. “Healthy Children Don’t Need Covid Vaccines.” By Allysia Finley. [Florida is right. Especially for kids under 12, the risks are trivial. And most have natural antibodies.] 3-21-22
Coronavirus. “Covid Lockdowns Were a Chinese Import.” By Eugene Kontorovich and Anastasia Lin. [The U.S. never considered such oppressive measures against a pandemic until leaders panicked in 2020.] 3-24-22
Coronavirus. “You Likely Don’t Need a Fourth Covid Shot.” By Philip Krause and Luciana Borto. [Unless you’re at high risk, the initial two doses are enough.] 3-29-22
Coronavirus. “Why We Are Covid Broke.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [All Washington knows how to do is spend money – and it can’t even do that well.] 4-1-22
Coronavirus. “The Covid Spending Racket.” [Whatever happened to that $1.9 trillion in supposed virus relief?] 4-2-22
Coronavirus. “FDA Shuts Out Its Own Experts in Authorizing Another Booster.” By Marty Makary. [Decisions like this reinforce the perception that Covid policy is driven by groupthink and politics.] 4-4-22
Coronavirus. “States of Covid Performance.” [A new study compares outcomes on economy, education and health.] (Table added to article: “Top 10 and Bottom 10 states During Covid-19,. Combined Score Measured by Economy, Education and Mortality.) 4-11-22
Coronavirus. “The Folly of World-Wide Covid Vaccination.” By Allysia Finley. [The pandemic stole focus from other, deadlier diseases in the developing world.] 4-12-22
Coronavirus. “The Eternal Covid Emergency.” 4-16-22
Coronavirus. “The Mask Mandate Goes Down.” [A federal judge says the CDC exceeded its statutory authority.] 4-19-22
Coronavirus. “America’s Unmasked Singers.” [“Has there been a judicial ruling that yielded so much rejoicing nationwide…vacating the federal mask mandate in public transportation..? “] 4-20-22
Coronavirus. “Mask Mandates, Authority and Status.” By James Tananto. [ The government’s appeal has nothing to do with public health.] 4-22-22
Coronavirus. “Can America’s Cities Make a Comeback?” (The Weekend Interview with Edward Glaeser by Tunku Varadarajan.) [America’s leading economist of urban life says a return to the workplace is crucial, especially for the young.] 5-28-22
Coronavirus. “How t Make Up the Covid Leaning Loss.” By Roland Fryer. [Paying students for attendance, behavior and homework can boost achievement.] 5-31-22
Coronavirus. “Why Won’t the FDA Let Doctors Prescribe Fluvoxamine for Covid?” by Allysia Finley. [Trials show it keeps patients from getting sicker, but the agency won’t approve its emergency use.] 5-31-22
Coronavirus. “Medicaid Has a Case of Long Covid.” [Under emergency rules, states are paying billions for ineligible people.] 6-4-22
Coronavirus. “Vindication for Ron DeSantis.” [An IG report debunks the charge that the state manipulated Covid data.] 6-4-22
Coronavirus. “The White House Keeps Stoking Covid fears.” By Jay Bhattacharya. 6-6-22
Coronavirus. “The High Cost of Constant Covid Testing.” By Tim Halliday and Ge Bai. 6-7-22
Coronavirus. “Undoing the Covid ‘Taxpayer Heist.’” [Scammers stole billions in pandemic aid. The GOP has a plan to crack down.] 6-21-22
Coronavirus. “In the Virus War, A Rapid Attack.” (Bookshelf by Robert M. Kaplan.) “Moonshot.” By Albert Bouria. [As welcome as the vaccine is, the process works best when research findings are peer-reviews and verified by independent scientists.] 6-30-22

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