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Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
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The Fog of COVID-19 Data: DHHS testing revisions raise more questions
If anything, the revision strengthens the case for greater data transparency that we at the John Locke Foundation have been making for weeks.
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New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on data challenging the notion that fitness centers present special COVID-19 risks. John Hood’s Daily Journal ponders Marxism’s ongoing danger.
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Harvard Epidemiologist Says FDA Is Blocking a Breakthrough COVID-19 Strategy
In a recent article in the Harvard Gazette, Michal Mina (assistant professor of epidemiology at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital) explains why cheap, daily,…
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COVID-19 and the mental toll on Americans
Americans, and especially our country’s youth, were already experiencing a mental health reckoning before the novel coronavirus. Now, 5 months into the pandemic, there is evidence COVID-19 is acting like…
Education
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
As Carolina Journal Radio marks its 900th weekly episode, Amy Cooke looks ahead to the future of the program’s role in promoting individual freedom, personal responsibility, and limited constitutional government.…
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New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on a union campaign among nurses in western North Carolina. John Trump’s Daily Journal explains why a popular song lyric linked to Raleigh…
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Greensboro-based Cone Health plans to merge with Sentara Healthcare
Greensboro-based Cone Health and Norfolk, VA-based Sentara Healthcare on Wednesday announced plans to merge the two hospital systems. Tara Bannow from Modern Healthcare reported, The CEOs of both not-for-profit health…
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Insurance numbers underscore the need for state innovation
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States, millions lost their jobs due to government-mandated shutdowns and plummeting demand for certain goods and services. Tragically, this massive job…
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15 coronavirus questions for the Cooper administration
When Governor Cooper, NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Mandy Cohen, and others go before the television cameras to give North Carolinians a COVID-19 update, the Cooper…
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Masks cause their own health problems
Melkorka Licea writes for the New York Post about a new malady tied to one of the most common responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that dentists have reopened their…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online about the N.C. education establishment’s attack on school choice. John Hood’s Daily Journal profiles the Carolinian who led women into medicine.
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“I don’t think there’s been a more politicised and controversial medicine than hydroxychloroquine.”
So says Prof. Nick White, one of the scientists involved in a large-scale hydroxychloroquine trial organized by England’s Oxford University. A recent BBC article describes how politically motivated opposition and online…