Health Care
Focusing on creating and pushing legislation that secures a free, competitive health care market for North Carolinians.
Evidence Anti-Malaria ‘Cocktail’ Could Help Fight Coronavirus
Last month, The N.C. Board of Pharmacy passed an emergency rule restricting the use of anti-malarial drugs like hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients. The rule restricts prescription of…
New Carolina Journal Online features
John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online on Wake County’s order to nix a local church’s plan for drive-through Sunday services. The Daily Journal highlights a recent court ruling that…
New model suggests social distancing measures may need to stay in place through May
Researchers from North Carolina released a new model today that suggests North Carolina may need to continue current social distancing measures through the end of May. The model considers two…
Access to anti-malaria ‘cocktail’ could protect our health care workers on the front lines
The need to fight the coronavirus requires nimble responses from government and the private sector. It also requires new efforts to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers…
Pence attracts praise for COVID-19 pandemic efforts
Grace Curley of the Boston Herald focuses attention on the “steady, devout” Vice President Mike Pence. In February, President Trump appointed Pence to head up the coronavirus task force. The…
World Health Organization taken to task for its COVID-19 actions
Nicholas Eberstadt and Dan Blumenthal write in the New York Post about one major player that deserves blame for the extent of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a group that should…
Beware those who use coronavirus as excuse to ‘restructure government’
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights provocative comments from a top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D., S.C.) on Friday defended…
“Study Finds Most Restaurants Fail Within First Year Of It Becoming Illegal To Go To Them”
Nice to see the Onion back on form.
Thought experiment: Could a floating hospital be used during the next pandemic?
A lighter post for your Friday… Twitter usually is good for negativity, and people lobbing insults at each other. However, the other night while I was scrolling through the website,…
Hanson notes American leadership during crisis
Victor Davis Hanson writes for National Review Online about American leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. A current global myth alleges that America under the Trump administration is not leading the…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the John Locke Foundation is offering freedom-forward ideas to help government address the resulting problems. Amy Cooke discusses those ideas during the next edition of…
JLF’s Amy Cooke explains that great challenges lead to great innovation