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The CDC Finally Does the Obvious
Calling Captain Obvious. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has now stated what has been clear to anyone following the scientific literature…
The Washington Examiner
Biden’s Expansion Of The Affordable Care Act Was Never About The Pandemic
Less than two months after jamming through a “temporary” expansion of the Affordable Care Act in the American Rescue Plan, President …
National Review
Punishing Success: the Biden Administration, Vaccines, and Intellectual Property
The Biden administration has apparently learned the wrong lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent statement, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced the “Biden-Harris…
The Center Square
Wyoming Becomes Latest State To Ban Vaccine Passports
The Center Square cites CEI’s study by Joel Zinberg: A recent study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank, argued…
City Journal
Dear Landlord
Among the least logical, most burdensome restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic has been the nationwide ban on residential evictions imposed by the Centers for…
City Journal
Safety Cannot Be the Only Goal
It’s been a week since the FDA and CDC lifted their pause on the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine. The…
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CDC Says It Is Safe for Vaccinated People to Unmask Outdoors
After much anticipation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has finally relaxed its guidelines on mask wearing—people who have been vaccinated…
New York Post
The Feds’ Foolish J&J Vax Pause is Already Undermining the War on COVID
A little more than a week ago, federal officials called for a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine. The decision…
National Review
The CDC Shouldn’t Treat Racism as a Public-Health Crisis
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was founded in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center, with a simple goal: prevent the spread of…
Orlando Sentinel
Desantis’ Ban Of Vaccine Passports Could Lead To Showdown With Businesses In Florida
The Orlando Sentinel cites Senior Fellow Joel Zinberg on vaccine passports: “Every business has economic and reputational incentives to ensure that…
The New York Post
Agencies are Being Cautious with J&J Vaccine — and it Could Cost Lives: Doctor
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that they are recommending a pause in the use of…
The Center Square
Study: Vaccine Passports May Soon be Obsolete
The Center Square cites CEI’s report by Senior Fellow Joel Zinberg on vaccine passports: The Competitive Enterprise Institute released a new …
Study
A Way Forward for Vaccination Passports
View Full Document as PDF Countries around the world have announced plans to implement vaccine passports—electronic or paper credentials that show…
City Journal
An Idea Whose Time May Never Come
Countries worldwide have announced plans to implement vaccine passports—electronic or paper credentials that show a person has immunity to Covid-19 through either vaccination or…
City Journal
An Idea Whose Time May Never Come
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More Good News on the Road to Ending the Pandemic
A new study from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which shows that a single dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the…
National Review
The CDC Extends Its Illegal, Ineffective Eviction Moratorium
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just announced that it is extending its nationwide eviction moratorium through June. The agency is…
City Journal
Open Schools Now
President Biden has continually intoned that we must “follow the science.” He needs to follow his own advice and lead on the…
City Journal
Crossing the Line
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued ever-changing, sometimes contradictory guidance throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. But the disparity between the agency’s treatment…
National Review
Team Biden’s COVID-Vaccine Deceptions
National Review
Team Biden’s COVID-Vaccine Deceptions
Can somebody tell President Biden that the election is over? Since he was sworn in six weeks ago, he hasn’t stopped denigrating the Trump…
The Washington Examiner
A Federal Eviction Ban Infringes on Constitutional Rights
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, federal and state governments have imposed multiple policies that infringe on constitutional rights in the name of protecting public health.
City Journal
The Third Vaccine
Chalk up another victory for America’s innovative pharmaceutical sector in the battle against Covid-19. An FDA analysis has found that Johnson and…
Wall Street Journal
Biden and Allies Stoked Vaccine Fears
President Biden has proposed an “unprecedented” information campaign to persuade people to get Covid-19 vaccinations. Why, when a pandemic has killed 500,000 Americans, does…
City Journal
False Hero of the Pandemic
Something is rotten in the state of New York. And, as in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, it starts at the top. For the past year, New York…
National Review
Atlas, Mugged
Stanford’s campaign against Dr. Scott Atlas for the sins of working for former president Donald Trump and advocating for balancing the costs and benefits…
National Review
Don’t Tax Prescription Opioids
Co-authored by Sally Satel and Joel Zinberg In 1819, U.S. Supreme Court chief justice John Marshall aptly warned that “the power to tax involves…
Inside Sources
Beating COVID-19: Five Simple Steps
Inside President Biden’s expansive and expensive plan to combat COVID-19 are a few hundred billion dollars to increase vaccination. Despite the scientific triumph of…
New York Post
Our Leaders Failed Us on COVID, but Miracle Science Brings Hope for Relief
It seems like a lifetime, but it was only one year ago that the world learned about a cluster of pneumonia cases linked to…
City Journal
Don’t Wait to Reopen Schools
President Biden has asked governors to reopen schools at the end of his first 100 days in office. Why wait? No Covid-19…
City Journal
What Was Amazon Waiting For?
January 20 was Inauguration Day. It was also the day that a major American employer offered to help in the Covid-19 vaccination effort. In…
National Review
Why Is Israel Doing Better Than Everyone Else in COVID Vaccinations?
Eleven years ago, Dan Senor and Saul Singer dubbed Israel the “Start Up Nation” for its disproportionately large number of technology start-ups and NASDAQ stock…
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Employers Will Pay Workers to Get a Covid-19 Vaccine
The federal government, through Operation Warp speed, helped develop and bring to market vaccines against the new disease COVID-19 in less than a year,…
City Journal
AUDIO: Joel Zinberg Joins the 10 Blocks Podcast to Discuss COVID Vaccine Rollout
Senior Fellow Joel Zinberg joins Brian Anderson at City Journal to discuss the slow rollout of coronavirus vaccines, why states…
City Journal
End Covid Now
More than 22 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been distributed in the United States so far, yet only …
National Review
Why Are We Vaccinating People Who Have Recovered from COVID-19?
Now that Pfizer and Moderna have received emergency-use authorizations for their COVID-19 vaccines, the tough work of deciding how to allocate the limited supply of…
The Dan Profit Show
AUDIO: Joel Zinberg Joins The Dan Profit Show
CEI’s Joel Zinberg joins The Dan Profit Show to discuss Biden’s COVID response.
City Journal
A Path to Better Days
It seems like a lifetime, but it was only one year ago that the world learned about a cluster of pneumonia cases linked to…
Wall Street Journal
Trump Isn’t the One Politicizing Science
Politics has infected many issues over the past four years and has now reached the supposedly objective halls of official medicine. In an editorial…
Wall Street Journal
Trump Isn’t the One Politicizing Science
Washington Journal
VIDEO: Joel Zinberg Joins Washington Journal
Hawaii Public Radio
05:49 Hawaii Public Radio
Hawaii Public Radio cites CEI senior fellow Joel Zinberg on COVID-19 vaccine. Most of the direct actions are going to have to take place…
FOX23 News @ 9
FOX23 News @ 9
FOX23 News @9 cites CEI senior fellow Joel Zinberg about COVID-19 vaccine. “The New York surgeon lawyer and economist with the competitive enterprise institute, COVID-19 is…
WFLD-CHI (FOX) — Good Day Chicago at 6A
WFLD-CHI (FOX) — Good Day Chicago at 6A
WFLD-CHI (FOX) — Good Day Chicago at 6A cites CEI senior fellow Joel Zinberg on COVID-19 vaccine and legal challenges. “Zinberg says: “COVID-19 is…
KRIV-HOU (FOX) — Houston's Morning Show 8am
KRIV-HOU (FOX) — Houston’s Morning Show 8am
KRIV-HOU (FOX) — Houston’s Morning Show 8am cites CEI senior fellow Joel Zinberg on the legal challenges to COVID-19 vaccine. “Legal challenges are…
National Review
Intimidation Tactics Against Trump Lawyers Undermine Justice
Two-hundred and fifty years ago, a young lawyer named John Adams risked professional and economic ruin when he defended British soldiers who were accused…
Fox News
VIDEO: CEI’s Joel Zinberg Joins Shannon Bream on Fox News to Discuss Vaccine Mandates
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COVID-19 Vaccine Development Is Testament to the Market’s Ability to Develop Life-Saving New Products
The announcement by drug maker Moderna that preliminary data from its still ongoing trial shows its COVID-19 vaccine is 95 percent effective is extremely…
City Journal
Andrew Cuomo, Vaccine-Resistant
New York governor Andrew Cuomo has done it again. Following his earlier pledge to delay distribution of a prospective, FDA-approved Covid-19 vaccine…
The Wall Street Journal
We Don’t Need Government Mandates for Covid Vaccination
Covid-19 vaccines are almost here. Pfizer announced Monday that its vaccine has proved more than 90% effective in clinical trials. But vaccines are useless unless…
Daily Caller News Foundation
The Affordable Care Act Is Likely Here To Stay Even If Amy Coney Barrett Fills Supreme Court Vacancy, Experts Say
Daily Caller News Foundation cites CEI Senior Fellow Joel Zinberg on Affordable Care Act. Dr. Joel Zinberg, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise…
Study
Science May Be the Easy Part
The COVID-19 pandemic has already infected more than 7 million Americans, claiming over 200,000 lives in the U.S. Since the disease is caused by a…
News Release
Report : Making Sure a COVID-19 Vaccine Is Used
A new Competitive Enterprise Institute report examines what employers, businesses, and political leaders can and should do to help people get vaccinated against the coronavirus,…
Blog
New CEI Report: Making Sure a COVID-19 Vaccine Is Used
One or more COVID-19 vaccines will likely be approved in the next few months. But this scientific achievement may prove to be the easy…
Wall Street Journal
Democrats Assured ACA Would Come Before ACB
California and the House asked the Supreme Court to fast-track’s Texas’ challenge to the law. Democrats now claim they oppose Judge Amy Coney…
Issues & Insights
COVID-19 Lockdowns Have Been A Disaster — End Them Now
Issues & Insights cites CEI Senior Fellow Joel Zinberg on COVID-19. “The lockdowns led to wide unemployment and economic recession, resulting in …
City Journal
Cuomo’s Vaccine Overreach
The New York governor’s incorrect claim that his state can review FDA vaccine approval will lead to more contagion and illness. New York…
National Review
Cancel Culture Comes to Medicine
Cancel culture has come to medicine. Dr. Scott Atlas, who was chairman of neuroradiology at Stanford’s medical school until 2012 and more recently a senior…
The Hill
Ending Counterproductive, Counterintuitive Regulation
Early in the COVID-19 crisis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) chided the Trump administration’s response and demanded “testing, testing, testing.” Yet,…
City Journal
Pointless Quarantine
New York’s restrictions on interstate travelers are overbroad and punish rather than protect New Yorkers. At the end of March, Rhode Island governor…
National Review
How Trump Can Help Reopen America’s Schools
It’s almost the middle of August, and many parents still have little idea if their kids will be able to go to school in a few…
The Wall Street Journal
The White House Prepared for a Pandemic
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched the Democrats’ broadside against the Trump administration’s Covid-19 response. “Our current federal government is dysfunctional and incompetent,” he told…
City Journal
Following The Science — Where?
When doctors meet a patient for a new complaint, we make a list of different possible explanations for the problem—a differential diagnosis—and try to determine…
Inside Sources
Government Contact Tracing Won’t Help Get Americans Back to Work, but Innovation Will
Contact tracing identifies people who have an infectious disease (cases) and people they came in contact with (contacts) who may have become infected.
City Journal
Death By Policy
Many years ago, one of my duties as a young surgical intern was to fill out death certificates for recently deceased patients. Under “cause of death,” Part…
Duluth News Tribune
National View: Media Giving Free Pass to Protests After Months of Lockdown Mania
The Duluth News Tribune cites CEI Senior Fellow Joel Zinberg: “Public health,” America has learned, is more ideology than science. Many of…
Inside Sources
Media Gives Pass To Protests After Months Of Lockdown Mania
Inside Sources quotes CEI senior fellow Joel Zinberg: Public health,” America has learned, is more ideology than science. Many of the officials…
Inside Sources
Are Protests Safe From COVID-19? Politics Guide Answers.
For months, a constant refrain in discussions of the COVID-19 pandemic has been: follow the science, listen to the experts.
National Review
A Doctor’s Assessment of the COVID-19 Outbreak
Last week, my daughter, a freshman at a Midwestern university, was informed that the spring quarter would be replaced by a remotely conducted quarter. Hundreds of…
Freedom Caucus Podcast
AUDIO: Dr. Joel Zinberg Joins the Freedom Caucus Podcast
Senior Fellow Dr. Joel Zinberg joins the Freedom Caucus Podcast to discuss the COVID vaccine & reopening our economy. A doctor and lawyer, he shares about his…
USA Today
Coronavirus Vaccine Not the End-All-Be-All. We Must Have a Plan for Reopening Without One
Dr. Anthony Fauci and other experts have touted vaccines as the ultimate solution to dealing with the threat of COVID-19. There are strong reasons to…
USA Today
Coronavirus vaccine not the end-all-be-all. We must have a plan for reopening without one.
National Review
Let the Doctors Work
Buried in the recent announcement by the Bureau of Economic Analysis that real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 4.8 percent in the first…
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A New Approach to COVID-19 Response
The new coronavirus—SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19—is here to stay until either a vaccine or herd immunity limits the number of people susceptible to…
National Review
Let the Doctors Work
The Washington Examiner
How to Reopen the Economy with a Reality-Based Approach
Sweeping public health measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, such as banning large gatherings, travel restrictions, closing all but essential businesses, closing schools, and “social distancing”…
News Release
CEI Welcomes Senior Fellow with Health Care and Legal Expertise
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to welcome medical and legal expert Joel M. Zinberg, M.D., J.D. as a senior fellow working on health care…
Washington Examiner
How to reopen the economy with a reality-based approach
National Review
The Test’s the Thing
The White House is now balancing the risk to public health and the risk to economic welfare posed by the coronavirus crisis. Yet a solution could…
National Review
The Test’s the Thing
Inside Sources
Why the CBO Estimates for the GOP Health Care Bill Are Undoubtedly Wrong
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has forecast that 14 million more people will be uninsured in 2018 under the House of Representatives’ American Health…