Stay-at-home orders appear to reduce the number of people who get coronavirus. More science is piling up to show that Kristi Noem’s wonder drug, hydroxchloroquine,…
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Smithfield Foods has been trying to scare us away from restricting its activities at its coronavirus-riddled Sioux Falls plant by warning that any disruption of…
Trump’s victory in 2016 shows that we should be careful about falling for foreign propaganda. But China’s Xinhua state news agency has produced a propaganda…
The coronavirus and our necessary public health responses are having significant economic impacts. Not all are bad. $1.77-per-gallon gasoline at Cenex is a nice break…
I don’t sit around wishing for the death of any megalomaniacal tyrant. But I also don’t wish them good luck: President Donald Trump wished the…
From my reading, the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team’s March 16 paper on how to save two million American lives and our healthcare system remains…
We’ve had what feels like a remarkably mild, unblizzardy spring. But don’t count on warmer weather to spare us from coronavirus. In a rapid expert…
Boris Johnson gets it—er, I mean, the British Prime Minister gets that coronavirus is a real problem, especially since he has gotten covid-19: Over the…
Oil supply is booming while demand is crashing. Oil Price Information Service chief Tom Kloza predicts that by early May, gasoline will cost perhaps half…
Did these 31 scientists save millions of lives? Neil M Ferguson, Daniel Laydon, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani, Natsuko Imai, Kylie Ainslie, Marc Baguelin, Sangeeta Bhatia, Adhiratha Boonyasiri,…