Jon Guze

A recent report by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control makes that very clear. Here are the report’s “key messages” (emphasis added): A small proportion (<5%) of overall COVID-19 cases reported in the EU/EEA and the UK are among children (those aged 18 years and under). When…

So says Prof. Nick White, one of the scientists involved in a large-scale hydroxychloroquine trial organized by England’s Oxford University. A recent BBC article describes how politically motivated opposition and online misinformation has put the trial in jeopardy: A trial investigating the drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventative…

That’s the closing line in Justice Gorsuch’s dissent in CALVARY CHAPEL DAYTON VALLEY v. STEVE SISOLAK, GOVERNOR OF NEVADA. Calvery Chapel had requested a preliminary injuction against an executive order issued by Governor Sisolak that permits many businesses, including movie theaters and casinos, to operate at half capacity—which can…

But I think he’s definitely right about the politicization of medicine. Harvey Risch, who’s a Professor of Epidemiology at Yale’s School of Public Health, published an opinion piece yesterday called, “The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists. We Need to Start Using It.” Here are some excerpts:…

In “Statewide lockdowns unnecessarily divide, divert us from task at hand,” I called attention to statistical evidence indicating that: (1) most people who were willing and able to practice social distancing had already started doing it before any lockdowns were put in place and (2) most people who were unwilling…

The National Law Journal has a report about a Miami criminal defense lawyer who is taking no chances with COVID-19: When Miami criminal defense attorney Samuel J. Rabin Jr. got out of his car and began walking down the street in a full hazmat suit, gloves, respirator…

And, if by any chance, you’ve got the time and the inclination for some serious thoughts about the significance of the day, here are three interesting peice from the folks at the Volokh Conspiracy: The Declaration of Independence will never be outmoded, as President Coolidge explained…

It continued in much of the world throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, and it continues in some places today:   H/T: Nicholas A. Christakis…