The New York Post
A Reality Check on How we Handle COVID-19 Risks
COVID-19 is still with us. Cases are rising in Europe and to a smaller extent in this country. But the fact that SARS-CoV-2, the virus…
National Review
Ending the Epidemic of Public-Nuisance Litigation
The opioid crisis has spawned a rash of litigation, with thousands of pending state and federal cases threatening to penalize legitimate prescription…
National Review
What’s Taking the FDA So Long on COVID Drug Molnupiravir?
On October 1, pharmaceutical companies Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced that their investigational oral antiviral drug Molnupiravir reduced the risk of hospitalization or death…
Blog
Rush to Pass Reconciliation Bill Would Embarrass Sausage Makers
There is an old saying, generally misattributed to Otto von Bismarck, that “Laws are like sausages—it is best not to see them being made.” Today,…
New York Post
Letter Confirms Wuhan Lab’s COVID-19 Leak was Funded by US Taxpayers
The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 remains unclear, but recent revelations reinforce the likelihood that the true source was a lab leak…
City Journal
Mandating Trouble
Thanks to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for city workers, New York faces the prospect of slower ambulance- and fire-response times, fewer cops…
News Release
OSHA Vaccine Mandate — Trouble for Employers, Rough Time in Courts
The Biden administration today published its much-anticipated vaccine mandate for businesses that employ 100 or more people. This “emergency temporary standard” by the Occupational…
City Journal
The Evidence Mounts
The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 remains unclear, but recent revelations reinforce the likelihood that the true source was…
Citation
VIDEO: Dr. Joel Zinberg Joins Dana Loesch on FirstTV to Discuss Vaccines
Senior Fellow Joel Zinberg joins to discuss why President Biden can’t make you get vaccinated; the outsourcing of parenting. Watch…
C-SPAN
VIDEO: Dr. Joel Zinberg Joins C-SPAN to Discuss Vaccine Mandates
C-SPAN
VIDEO: Dr. Joel Zinberg Joins C-SPAN to Discuss Vaccine Passports and Mandates
National Review
Innovators to the Rescue
Thirty years ago, I spoke at a conference on xenotransplantation — the transplantation of organs, cells, or tissues between species — at Columbia…
Blog
Only Reconciliation “Emergency” Is the Rush to Spend Trillions
Earlier today, the House Committee on Rules released a revised version of the Build Back Better Act (H.R 5376), now priced at bargain low…
The Dallas Morning News
No, President Biden can’t make you get vaccinated
COVID-19 vaccine mandates are all the rage, with some people anxious to impose them and others vehemently opposed. President Joe Biden recently directed the Department of…
New York Post
Kyrie: Listen to a Doc, the Vaccines are Safe and Highly Effective
Kyrie Irving is a great basketball player, but he won’t be in the Brooklyn Nets lineup this season. The reason isn’t some nagging injury or…
Op-Eds
Journalists Face Disaster as COVID-19 Deaths Drop
The COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. is ebbing, but you would never know it from the headlines. Bad news, accurate or not, sells. And in the…
New York Post
Stop the General Panic: COVID is Dangerous Now Only to Unvaccinated
More than ever, COVID-19 is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, the elderly, and those with pre-existing conditions. Yet there’s a disturbing tendency by the administration…
City Journal
Follow the (Political) Science
Both before and after the 2020 election, Joe Biden complained that President Donald Trump had politicized the Covid-19 pandemic. Biden insisted that he, in contrast…
Blog
More Evidence that the Biden Administration Is Not Following the Science
In a rebuke to the Biden administration’s announcement that it would be rolling out COVID-19 booster shots for adults during the week of September…
National Review
Injecting a Little Lawlessness
The most far-reaching and questionable part of the Biden administration’s six-pronged COVID-19 Action Plan directs the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration…
New York Post
The US is Nearing Immunity from COVID-19
Despite media claims that “We Can’t Turn the Corner on COVID,” the numbers of COVID-19 cases, new hospitalizations, and deaths nationwide…
City Journal
Delta is Dying
Despite media claims that “We Can’t Turn the Corner on Covid,” the numbers of Covid-19 cases, new hospitalizations, and deaths nationwide …
National Review
Ending a Destructive and Illegal Government Program
Late last week the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a stay on a lower-court decision that struck down the Biden administration’s extension of the CDC’s nationwide eviction…
Blog
Landlords Deserve Protection Too
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s extension of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide eviction moratorium. While most…
City Journal
Booster Overkill
Several weeks ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its guidance and recommended that fully vaccinated individuals wear a mask in…
New York Post
Biden’s Losing Support for His COVID Handling. Maybe He Should Stop Politicizing it
President Biden is threatening legal action by the secretary of education against Republican governors to get them to OK school mask mandates. This follows his…
New York Post
Biden’s losing support for his COVID handling. Maybe he should stop politicizing it
News Release
Supreme Court Strikes Down CDC Eviction Moratorium, Upholds Rule of Law
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the nationwide eviction moratorium imposed by the Centers for Disease Control, which was ostensibly aimed at…
City Journal
Science Matters—and So Do Individual Rights
As battles over Covid-19 mandates roil the country, it is vital that policies be scientifically based. Well-established legal precedent gives state governments and private entities…
New York Post
Lockdowns and Mandates Impede Far Better Voluntary Safety Measures
After a year of start-and-stop public-health measures, more often guided by intuition than by science, studies are confirming what economists long suspected: The COVID-19 lockdowns were…
New York Post
Media Won’t Pay a Price for Cheering Cuomo’s Draconian COVID Policies
City Journal
Individual Choices, Not Lockdowns
After a year of start-and-stop public-health measures, more often guided by intuition than by science, studies are confirming what economists long suspected: the Covid-19 lockdowns…
National Review
Evicting the Constitution
Few government actions have been more emblematic of bureaucratic overreach than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide eviction moratorium. After multiple successful court…
New York Post
Hasty About-Face Distorts Delta Force
The CDC now urges public indoor masking after a worrisome study on the Delta variant — undermining the vaccine effort. We finally know what drove the…
City Journal
The CDC’s Slender Reed
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reversed its guidance from two months ago and now recommends that fully vaccinated individuals…
The Megyn Kelly Show
AUDIO: Dr. Joel Zinberg Discusses COVID Confusion and Olympics Storylines with Megyn Kelly
National Review
A Defeat for Dr. Leviathan
A recent ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in a seemingly obscure case has important implications for limits on the Food and Drug Administration’s…
The New York Post
Doctor Says: Stop the Panic Over the Delta Variant
Delta is now the dominant variant in the US of the virus that causes COVID-19. It is more transmissible than earlier variants and has led to…
The Tribune-Democrat
The Show Must Go On
COVID-19 cases are rising, vaccinations are low, and most of the host country wants to cancel the event. Yet, the Games should go on. The…
City Journal
Stay the Course
One cannot open a newspaper, turn on a TV, or scroll through an online news feed without hearing about Covid-19’s new Delta variant. While the…
Wall Street Journal
Stealing From Drug Makers Is No Way to Vaccinate the World
The innovative pharmaceutical industry confounded critics by delivering highly effective vaccines for a novel disease in less than a year. The vaccines are working against…
News Release
CEI Experts React to President Biden’s Wide-Ranging Executive Order on Competition
President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy today, which the White House claims is aimed at enhancing…
The New York Post
Stop panicking about ‘Delta’: Vaccines are effective against ALL strains of COVID
Delta is coming. But contrary to alarmists at home and abroad, there is little reason to panic. Scientists first identified the Delta variant of the…
Blog
End Useless Vaccination of the Immune
Six months ago, as the first vaccines were becoming available, I wrote, “Why Are We Vaccinating People Who Have Recovered From COVID-19?” Now that…
Washington Examiner
The Supreme Court’s First Amendment ruling could help stop cancel culture
In what could be an important precedent in these days of academic political correctness and cancel culture, the Supreme Court has confirmed that…
City Journal
Obamacare Survives a Third (and Likely Final) Challenge
The Supreme Court has now ruled on three legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act, and for opponents of the statute the third time was…
National Review
Woke Inquisitors in the Medical World
Four hundred years ago, Italian astronomer Galileo was persecuted for advancing Copernicus’s theory that the earth and other planets rotate around the sun.
The Wall Street Journal
Vaccine Slowdown Isn’t Cause for Alarm
The United States has done something amazing: developed and authorized three new vaccines and vaccinated half of its adult population, all within 17 months of…
Wall Street Journal
Vaccine Slowdown Isn’t Cause for Alarm
The United States has done something amazing: developed and authorized three new vaccines and vaccinated half of its adult population, all within 17 months of…
City Journal
Following the Politics, Not the Science
It is a disturbing prospect, like something out of a science fiction novel, but it’s appearing increasingly plausible nonetheless: the cause of the worldwide Covid-19…