by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jul 12, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
After the COVID ‘misinformation’ experience, will the vice president’s new plan for addressing online harassment go any better? For most of its existence, I had avoided social media and held particular disdain for Twitter, which I saw as intrinsically...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Sep 21, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
One warm weekend in October of 2020, three impeccably credentialed epidemiologists—Jayanta Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff, of Stanford, Oxford, and Harvard Universities respectively—gathered with a few journalists, writers, and economists at an...
by will.gale | Nov 9, 2021 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
Now that the Food and Drug Administration has authorized the Pfizer -BioNTech vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds, expect a wave of Covid-19 vaccine mandates for children. San Francisco announced last week that the city will require children in that age group to show proof...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jan 5, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
In the years before COVID-19 dramatically altered our political landscape, the smattering of parents throughout the country who questioned the necessity of routine childhood immunizations caught the attention of news media. Derided for touting scientifically...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jan 18, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
For two years, the political class’s ineptitude has been on full display. School shutdowns, business closures, and endless mask mandates have all proven relatively ineffective at stemming the spread of COVID-19 (never mind reducing hospitalizations and deaths), yet...