COVID-19 (page 8)

It's reasonable to infer that North Carolina hasn't witnessed excess deaths in the weeks following May 16. The state already was below the excess deaths threshold then, and COVID deaths were already declining — a decline that accelerated in subsequent weeks.

Vik Khanna argues in a Federalist column that we are all suffering now from hospitals‘ lack of preparation for a pandemic. When the eventual COVID-19 post-mortem is conducted, the big culprit in the economic mayhem unleashed upon Americans is going to be the health-care industry, specifically hospitals. When…

Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online that private schools don’t have to wait for Gov. Roy Cooper’s school reopening order. The Daily Journal explains how government’s checks and balances can lead to better policy results.

In their Workers Bill of Rights petition, the NC Association of Educators does not mention Gov. Cooper.

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…

Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on the impact for rural health care of Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-19 shutdown orders. John Hood’s Daily Journal uses an example from N.C history to highlight the need for prudent leadership.

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…

Here are some recent COVID-19 trends from the available data for North Carolina.