Outside the Beltway

Data collection and analysis takes time.

Trump made some odd suggestions on today’s Aló Presidente.

President Trump can’t handle the truth.

The CDC director predicts a double whammy when flu season hits.

People who keep calling Covid-19 “just the flu” haven’t looked very closely at the numbers.

Critics of the modeling and of the data analysis are being too simplistic.

Conflicting guidelines from the CDC are unhelpful.

The Constitution in times of extreme crisis.

But they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops.

Trump’s approach from the beginning has been reality-denying. It makes it difficult to take anything the administration proposed seriously.

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

Why South Korea is so far ahead of us in fighting COVID-19.

A sign of the times.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Too many people still don’t understand the idea behind ‘flattening the curve.’ That includes our President.

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

A prudent, if overdue, warning.

These decisions should be made by professionals.

Conferences, sporting events, and even school has been canceled to avoid spreading the pandemic.

Republicans are half as likely to take the outbreak seriously.

Looking back to a story from 2018.

What’s new isn’t necessarily what’s most important.

Suicide has become a bigger threat to members of the military and veterans than combat. That needs to change.

The Trump Administration has apparently decided that it will not be providing the flu vaccine to migrants being held in facilities at the southern border.

The Ebola outbreak that began last year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is still a problem, and still threatening to spread.

The original ‘scandal’ was silly. The follow-up is sillier.

While mildly embarrassing, it’s unlikely to have much impact on the race.

Thanks largely to anti-vaccination propaganda, the Centers for Disease Control reports that measles cases in the U.S. are at a level unseen in a quarter century.

In a recent speech, President Trump made claims about abortion that are manifestly untrue but which his pro-life supporters continue to believe.

Despite some obstacles, America’s armed forces drink other professions under the table.

Tragedy piled on top of tragedy.

Mandatory vaccination laws raise personal liberty issues that ought to be taken seriously, but in the end, public health concerns weigh heavily in favor of laws mandating vaccination.

A decade-long study once again establishes that there is no link between childhood vaccination and autism.

Measles cases in the United States are surging thanks to the lies spread by the anti-vaccination movement.

Despite aggressive vaccination efforts, measles cases surged worldwide last year. You can “thank” that anti-vaccination movement.

Measles cases are on the rise in Europe due to the fact that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, people still believe the lies of the anti-vaccination movement.

Either the President of the United States is a knowing liar or he is very easily duped. Neither is a comforting thought.

There are twice as many suicides as homicides in America.

The Trump Administration’s School Safety Commission isn’t getting off to a very good start.

Just when you think the President has hit rock bottom, it gets worse.

Organizing protests was the easy part. The hard part for those who would seek to expand gun regulations is yet to come.

An estimated 200,000 Americans have Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Dental professionals are 23 times more likely to be afflicted.

Thanks for nothing, anti-vaxxers.

A true, albeit largely anonymous, hero of humanity has passed away.

Concerns about the Zika Virus are leading some doctors to call for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be moved or postponed.

Bernie Sanders was more aggressive in last night’s debate than he has been in the past, but it’s likely too little, too late.

Mass shootings rightly grab our attention. But the obscure the overall picture of violent crime.

A new report finds that the problems at the Secret Service are far deeper than previously known.