Health Care

On Tuesday, a federal court in Puerto Rico will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the territory’s vaccine mandate for public employees. The case, Rodriguez Velez et. al. v. Pierluisi-Urrutia, represents the first time a federal…

People gather at City Hall in Manhattan to protest the city’s vaccine mandate in New York, August 25, 2021. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) A Manhattan Supreme Court judge temporarily blocked the city government’s vaccine mandate for…

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy delivers remarks at the White House in Washington, D.C., July 15, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Since President Biden unilaterally declared a vaccine mandate for private businesses with 100 or more employees,…

Governor of South Carolina Henry McMaster speaks at the 2017 SelectUSA Investment Summit in Oxon Hill, Ma., June 19, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) A number of Republican governors have come out in opposition to President Biden’s…

A student wearing a protective mask attends class on the first day of school amid the coronavirus pandemic at St. Lawrence Catholic School in North Miami Beach, Fla. August 18, 2021. (Marco Bello/Reuters) Its refusal to give kids…

In the late spring, as coronavirus cases in the U.S. were trending way down and vaccination rates were trending up, Dr. Lucy McBride and three of her colleagues authored an optimistic Washington Post op-ed with a clear and straightforward…

President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., August 22, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) After a politically tumultuous summer, marked by a COVID rebound, partisan gridlock over domestic…

The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort enters New York Harbor during the coronavirus outbreak, March 30, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Coronavirus fearmongers and global-warming activists have a lot in common. There has been something rather…

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky speaks before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Capitol Hill, April 15, 2021. (Amr Alfiky/Pool via Reuters) During an appearance on Fox News Friday, CDC director Rochelle…

Texas governor Greg Abbott (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Texas governor Greg Abbott on Thursday threatened to issue fines to local officials who enforce new mask mandates. Abbott’s warning comes after the CDC reversed course earlier this…