Editor’s Note: As with all things COVID-19, we respect our author’s opinions and ideas on this issue – all of their ideas. With that in mind, we present this new opinion piece. Note that 19FortyFive promotes the free expression of ideas and does not take any editorial stance on COVID-19 – or any issue. Debate […]

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China’s dramatic shift from draconian restrictions to relaxed COVID-19 rules is likely to cause more economic disruptions than benefits. The poorly performing economy will only further undermine the Communist Party’s claims of effective governance. In 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping directed Chinese officials to make sure China’s economic growth would outpace that of the United […]

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This was the year the word “tripledemic” entered the lexicon. That’s the term for the three different types of illnesses, COVID-19, flu, and RSV, that are affecting people this winter season. The New York Times looked at the problem last week. “R.S.V., or respiratory syncytial virus, has made so many young children ill this fall that weekly […]

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Perhaps as many as 90% of China’s 1.41 billion people will come down with COVID-19, said Feng Zijian, former deputy chief of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, to Bloomberg News. Feng predicts 60% of the population will be infected in the first wave. China did not have to wait long. There is now […]

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A new virus has emerged in China and infected around 35 people, sparking concern that a new pandemic could be on the way. Scientists say that it’s too soon to determine whether the viral outbreak will be deadly and whether it can spread easily between humans. The Langya henipavirus, known as LayV, has been documented […]

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President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19. He is currently experiencing mild symptoms, the White House said. “This morning, President Biden tested positive for COVID-19. He is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and experiencing very mild symptoms. He has begun taking Paxlovid. Consistent with CDC guidelines,  he will isolate at the White House and […]

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As COVID Cases Rise, Studies Suggest Omicron Is More Deadly Than Originally Though – COVID-19 cases in the United States steadily increased in April, reaching a daily average of 67,263 and bringing the total number of cases to 81,574,159. Today, roughly 94,000 new cases were reported, up from a recent bottom of nearly 8,000 on […]

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Midterms Likely Play a Part in Sudden COVID Restriction Pullback: Seemingly out of nowhere, COVID-19 regulations across the United States are being relaxed and public health officials are optimistic that the country can move beyond these restrictions, not without COVID, but despite its continued spread. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of […]

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England will become the first country in the world to drop all remaining COVID restrictions at the end of February, following almost two years of strict lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and self-isolation laws. Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced this week that he will put forward his roadmap for “living with COVID” when Parliament […]

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki attempted to distance the Biden administration from controversial COVID-19 lockdown measures on Friday, pointing the finger at the Trump administration for implementing them in the first place. When asked by a reporter about a new study from Johns Hopkins, which showed lockdowns had minimal, if any, positive impact on […]

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COVID Cases Keep Dropping Across the U.S.: Daily COVID-19 cases across the United States keep on dropping. Over the last week, daily cases fell by 47%, with the states hit first by the pandemic finally seeing dramatic reductions in infections and hospitalizations. According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, the United States saw 717,800 new […]

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Here’s What You Need to Know About the New Omicron BA.2 Subvariant: Just as White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed confidence that the Omicron surge will peak in February, and as the United States saw its first drop in the seven-day average of new cases since mid-December, a new variant of concern […]

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COVID Cases May Be Peaking in the United States as Omicron Continues to Spread: The United States may soon see the number of COVID-19 cases peak, with regions across the country reporting rapidly dropping case numbers. While some parts of the country are still experiencing extremely high volumes of COVID-19 cases, owing to the rapid […]

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The people of Taiwan have been living in a parallel world since June 2020, with the island recording more than 250 consecutive days without any domestic cases of COVID-19. This paradise was brought back to the reality of the pandemic in late April 2021, when a pilot violated strict quarantine laws and sparked a series of domestic outbreaks. The […]

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As Cato has long pointed out, the law takes a paradoxical stance toward so‐​called “off‐​label” use of drugs approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). On the one hand, it’s completely lawful for physicians to prescribe approved drugs for other than the FDA‐​approved uses, and such uses are vital in everyday practice. Indeed, off‐​label compounds […]

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Did China cause the coronavirus pandemic? On August 24, a report President Joe Biden ordered 90 days earlier from the intelligence bureaucracy about the origin of COVID-19 will be due. There is an odd lack of leaked information about where the report stands now. Despite their supposedly secretive nature, these agencies often seem to employ […]

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For over a year, the world has been preoccupied with fighting COVID-19. The tide of that battle has now turned. And it is now time for the free world to turn its attention to what caused this pandemic: the malicious and destabilizing behavior of the Chinese Communist Party. As new evidence emerged over the last […]

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The pursuit of Covid-19 origin has just begun. And it will only get harder from here. President Joe Biden’s decision to task our intelligence community to determine the origins of COVID-19, and report the conclusion in 90 days, buys some time to prepare for an answer. What to do with the verdict – lab accident […]

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There is a growing realization that efforts by key scientists, political leaders, and most of the mainstream media to stifle debate about the origin of the coronavirus are failing rapidly. Until a few weeks ago, allegations that the virus may have originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology rather than in nature were widely dismissed […]

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The American Rescue Plan, the Biden administration’s first major piece of COVID-relief legislation, brought with it a number of measures designed to jumpstart America’s economic recovery. For the most part, the plan has been successful. The IRS has so far distributed over 163 million checks worth up to $1,400, totaling over $384 billion. These payments […]

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In general, no federal law prohibits businesses from asking for proof of vaccination as a condition of consumer services or employment. Kathryn Watson of CBS News interviewed me about this and I hit a few main points, beginning with the relatively few exceptions: *Religious objections and employment: Title VII, the federal employment discrimination law, forces an employer to accommodate […]

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is recommending the federal government and state governments stop administering Johnson & Johnson’s Covid‐​19 vaccine. Some 7 million Americans have received the vaccine, whose regimen requires only one dose. The FDA issued the recommendation after reports that six women between the ages of 18 and 48 developed blood clots after taking the vaccine. […]

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Today’s favorable employment and GDP numbers, pointing to a U.S. economy well on the mend, have to raise a couple of basic questions. With the US economy already recovering, did the U.S. economy really need as large a budget stimulus as the Biden Administration rushed through Congress earlier this month? Might overstimulating the economy now […]

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A famous comedian, now canceled so shall remain nameless, had a standup routine in which he would describe the onboard behavior of airline passengers in the U.S. while comparing them to their great grandparents who probably spent months traversing the same route across the plains beneath in a wagon over a century before, leaving several […]

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A seemingly scary story in The Wall Street Journal, by Jason Douglas and Joanna Sugden, warns of “a more‐​contagious and possibly deadlier coronavirus variant” in the U.K., implying that British cases and deaths are spreading faster than before. The reason the new “more contagious” strain is supposedly spreading so rapidly, they suggest, is because the British government […]

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They say journalism is the first rough draft of history. With the Covid pandemic now a year old, we are starting to see books on the topic. And various libertarian studies and articles, critically examining government and private-sector responses to the crisis, have appeared. But some of those rough drafts in the major media add up to a pretty strong critique of government […]

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When I was asked to calculate the total volume of SARS-CoV-2 in the world for the BBC Radio 4 show More or Less, I will admit I had no idea what the answer would be. My wife suggested it would be the size of an Olympic swimming pool. “Either that or a teaspoon,” she said. […]

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Increased staffing, personal protective equipment and testing contributed to the mounting financial crisis that could jeopardize the care of thousands of older Americans, many of whom are women. *Correction appended The United States recorded its first COVID-19 death in February 2020 as the virus swept through a Washington nursing home. Within one year, the country […]

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Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the model of a marketplace of ideas in which strong arguments drive out the weak has sometimes taken a beating. Erroneous theories of the virus and how it spreads, bogus data interpretations, and ineffective therapeutic ideas have spread faster than sober correction could keep up. Although the federal government was […]

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Where is the U.S. economy headed now that many governors are reimposing stricter COVID-19 safety protocols now that cases are spiking nationwide? I spoke to acclaimed economist Milton Ezrati to get his take on where all of this might be headed. Our conversation is below: It seems unemployment numbers are not improving at the clip […]

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As Joe Biden prepares to take up residence in the White House, one issue towers above all others in his public communications: the coronavirus. He has promised to “spare no effort, none, or any commitment, to turn around this pandemic” and demanded “a robust and immediate federal response” to bring it under control. Biden has […]

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One constant fear I have is that we are about to replay March to roughly May of this year when the U.S. economy was shut down in an effort to “slow the spread” of COVID-19. While I do think it was effective and saved countless lives, I do worry about the lasting economic damage such […]

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Back at the end of February, my bosses at the Center for the National Interest asked me what would happen if there was a global pandemic thanks to Coronavirus. I laughed, saying there was no chance of a pandemic and the threat was overblown, with little to fear when it comes to economic growth. Needless […]

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The hospital at which I work offered antibody serology tests to all medical staff last Wednesday. The test detects IgG, the immunoglobulin that appears in the blood serum of people infected with COVID-19 sometime beyond 14 days from the time of infection. The hospital uses the Abbott Labs Architect serology test, which shows 99.6 percent specificity and 100 percent sensitivity, meaning false negatives and […]

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