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 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...
