Health Care
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State of Emergency? NC Has Not Had Excess Deaths from Covid-19 Since Mid-March
We demonstrated last summer that — even without DHHS reporting to the CDC — it is possible to see whether North Carolina has been witnessing Covid-caused excess deaths. Since mid-March,…
How Much Are Cooper’s Orders to Blame for Non-Covid Excess Deaths in North Carolina?
From the week ending April 25, 2020, into January 2021 (the last month for which we have data), North Carolina was experiencing excess deaths without counting Covid deaths — i.e.,…
How Delinquent Is DHHS in Death Reports to the CDC?
The irresponsibility of the Cooper administration continues to worsen. Checking the CDC Excess Deaths site today, I find that while the United States is updated into the month of June…
DHHS still reports deaths from 2020 as “new” Covid deaths
DHHS reported more "new" Covid-19 deaths the past week that occurred between August 2020 and February 2021 (35 or 47%) than it did in May–June 2021 (33 or 44%). Nearly…
Fauci Tries to Rewrite His History
Isaac Schorr of National Review Online highlights the latest pronouncements from America’s most famous COVID-19 scold. Dr. Anthony Fauci joined CBS This Morning on Wednesday for a segment in which…
New Carolina Journal Online Features
David Bass reports for Carolina Journal Online on disturbing recent comments from the judge in North Carolina’s Leandro school-funding lawsuit. A new CJ Opinion explains why a legal setback doesn’t…
Fauci’s Skewed Version of Cost-Benefit Analysis
Kylee Zempel of the Federalist highlights flaws in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s dubious approach to pandemic policy. Whether Fauci was right or wrong — although hindsight and mass casualties have certainly…
Exposing Ignorance About Health Care Policy
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online makes an example out of a college professor’s ignorant health care comments. Forgive my plucking a comment from the obscurity of Twitter to make…
DHHS discovers 13 “new” Covid deaths from 2020 — just since its last report
Fewer than half of the "new" deaths reported actually occurred in the past three weeks, while roughly the same proportion occurred back in February or earlier.
Fauci’s Emails Come Back to Bite Him
William Sullivan writes for the American Thinker about the potentially devastating impact of recently released emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci. On March 8, 2020, Dr. Fauci famously told Americans via…
Harvard Professor of Medicine: Why I Spoke Out Against Lockdowns
Martin Kulldorff writes of the strange response he and other health experts received from U.S. media and big tech when they spoke from their expertise about the initial and ongoing…
John Locke Foundation Files Friend-of-the-Court Brief In Case Challenging North Carolina’s Certificate-of-Need Law
New Bern eye surgeon’s suit says law blocks him from providing lower-cost service RALEIGH — The John Locke Foundation has filed an amicus brief in Singleton v. NC DHHS, the lawsuit…