by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Apr 10, 2023 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
Ernest Ramirez, a car-wash technician in a small, south Texas town, led a simple but fulfilling life with his son, Ernesto Junior. Junior was a “wonderful child, full of smiles.” Ramirez had raised his son alone; he’d never known his own father and sought to provide...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jan 10, 2023 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
Newly released documents show that the White House has played a major role in censoring Americans on social media. Email exchanges between Rob Flaherty, the White House’s director of digital media, and social-media executives prove the companies put Covid censorship...
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 judy.pino@ncla.legal | May 9, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Opinion
After six months of suspension, Rhode Island, in its munificence, has permitted the “defiant” maxillofacial surgeon Dr. Stephen Skoly to reopen his medical practice. Of course, in the mind of the state, the suspension was always Skoly’s own fault. If only he had...
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...