Outside the Beltway

Yet another study that confirms my pre-existing biases.

Vice President Harris gets better care than the average American. Cue the outrage!

Some 60% of us, including 75% of our children, have been infected.

A twist on an evergreen debate.

Speaker Pelosi has it. Is President Biden next?

Lots of folks at the Gridiron dinner are positive.

The public health community is divided on whether it’s a good idea.

We did much better in 2020 and worse since 2021 than we thought.

We may be on the verge half a century after our last experiment.

Mixed messages from the pharmaceutical companies.

Some of our citizens are at greater risk under relaxed mask guidelines.

A new way to think about the problem.

Blue and red states alike are ending mask mandates and other restrictions.

Media reporting on CDC findings is, once again, unhelpful.

The downside to online archives of pre-print articles.

Being too cautious and careless are not equal sins.

Being willing to do anything to survive, but not that.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

Are we really being blocked from getting back to normal? And if so, what is the real barrier?

Are Fauci, the CDC, and others getting a bum rap?

We’ll take what we can get.

The CDC is weighing changing the definition of “fully vaccinated.”

Why are we still wearing cloth, which was an emergency measure?

A lot of America is simply over the pandemic, even if it isn’t over us.

In the age of vaccines, should we stop worrying about the pandemic?

The horrors never cease.

A scary if misleading factoid.

The next boot has dropped.

Reading disparate polling numbers critically.

Science and insanity don’t mix.

The CDC is leaving it up to you!

Is media coverage of experts’ struggles to understand COVID helpful?

Another effect of the pandemic.

Denial, whining, and truth wrapped into one segment.

While 96 percent of airmen are in compliance, the service is about to get smaller.

Cases per state adjusted for population.

Let’s look at the numbers and the clear effects of policy choices.

The Assistant Secretary for Health has put on a uniform and become an instant Admiral.

Apparently, it’s higher than 67.

A casual comparison is pretty striking.

Refusniks are creating an ethical dilemma for the triage system.

A 1960s pop culture reference and our current moment.

Get vaccinated edition

The evidence is pretty clear: vaccinations are key, not weather (but that won’t stop people from trying to say otherwise).

A vaccinated 75-year-old is as likely to die as an unvaccinated 53-year-old.

Politics is not a game.

The difference is politics, not reason.

I wonder what the cause was? It sounds pretty serious.

Policy matters.

It’s happening again. This time, it was easily preventable.