Clinging to emergency powers won’t stop the spread of COVIDby Doug Badger and Kevin Dayaratna |The Philadelphia Inquirer | April 17, 2022 Starting today, Philadelphia is reinstating its indoor mask mandate. In so doing, the city is failing to adapt policy to the changing nature of the COVID public health challenge, Doug Badger and Kevin Dayaratna write in an op-ed for The … [Read more...] about Learn to Live with It!
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CDC Must Drop the Masks and Deceit
“Unmasking CDC’s Latest Mask Study: How Government Gets It Wrong Again” By Doug Badger | Feb. 8, 2022, The Daily Signal | Galen Senior Fellow Doug Badger has read the fine print in the latest CDC study on masking and finds it embarrassingly deficient. The Centers for Disease Control blasted out the news from the study that purports to prove wearing a mask dramatically lowered … [Read more...] about CDC Must Drop the Masks and Deceit
Analyzing Medicare Vaccine Policy
While Covid-19 vaccines have been “free” to everyone, Medicare’s overall vaccine policy is haphazard at best. In a new paper, Galen Senior Fellow Doug Badger examines Medicare’s “balkanized” coverage of preventive vaccines. He asks: “Should Medicare Eliminate Cost Sharing for Preventive Vaccines?” Badger explains the current confusion: “Medicare Part B … [Read more...] about Analyzing Medicare Vaccine Policy
Convoluted, Costly Covid Test Plan — Doug Badger in The Daily Signal
Biden’s COVID-19 Tests Plan: Too Little, Too Late | By Doug Badger | The Daily Signal, Jan. 25, 2020 President Joe Biden has a new plan on rapid, at-home COVID-19 testing, but as with much of his administration’s pandemic policy, the plan is convoluted, costly, and late. Making affordable, rapid at-home tests widely available empowers people to learn their COVID-19 status. Instead … [Read more...] about Convoluted, Costly Covid Test Plan — Doug Badger in The Daily Signal
The OSHA Vaccine Mandate: Legal, Practical, and Economic Considerations
By Paul Larkin, Jr., and Doug Badger | The Heritage Foundation, December 2021 | Legal and policy experts Paul Larkin and Doug Badger argue in a paper for The Heritage Foundation that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lacks the authority from Congress to issue a general vaccine mandate. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Friday regarding a … [Read more...] about The OSHA Vaccine Mandate: Legal, Practical, and Economic Considerations
No OSHA Authority for Vaccine Mandates
Congress Didn’t Give OSHA Authority to Impose Vaccine Mandates | By Doug Badger and Paul J. Larkin Jr. | The Daily Signal | The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is about to require 80 million working Americans to get vaccinated. You may be among them. There’s just one catch: OSHA lacks the legal authority to impose a vaccine … [Read more...] about No OSHA Authority for Vaccine Mandates
Rethink The Child Mask Mandate — Doug Badger for Daily Signal
CDC Should Revise Its Guidance Mandating Masks at School By Doug Badger August 31, 2021 The Daily Signal The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends “universal indoor masking of all students age 2 and older.” But there’s just one problem: The leading study on which the CDC bases this recommendation found that the COVID-19 infection rate in … [Read more...] about Rethink The Child Mask Mandate — Doug Badger for Daily Signal
“Vax Shaming”
President Biden yesterday warned governors to “get out of the way of the people that are trying to do the right thing” by imposing new mask mandates, requiring vaccine passports, and other COVID restrictions. Biden called out Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, pointedly noting their states account for one-third of all new cases. DeSantis pushed back, saying … [Read more...] about “Vax Shaming”