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So Part 3 of Biden's fiscal blowout is now online: $1.8 trillion in new spending over 10 years, plus $2.3T in his "infrastructure" proposal, plus $1.9T in stimulus passed by

Please wear masks, friends, especially when you're around others indoors. Masks *do* work. Masks, distancing, and hand-washing are the most important things we can do to limit #COVID19 transmission. This

At today's hearing, Democrats warned that confirming Judge Coney Barrett to #SCOTUS would mean people with preexisting conditions lose coverage. The Fair Care Act, a new @RepWesterman @SenatorBraun bill, would

New: my @WSJ Review cover story on the compelling case for reopening schools, especially for younger children. Children themselves are at extremely low risk of serious illness or death. So

So @YouTube just took down a June 23 interview that Scott Atlas (@SWAtlasHoover) did with his employer, Stanford's @HooverInst, because it "contradicts the World Health Organization or local health authorities'

THREAD: Big news today. For the first time, we have a confirmed report of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection by a patient in Hong Kong—his/her #COVID19 diagnoses were 4.5 months apart. This blows

The reason I'm walking you through all of this is because the recent rise in hospitalizations in Florida is driven by younger people. This appears to be true in Texas

If you want to understand what's going on with #COVID19 right now, the best place to look is Florida, because they do the best job of anyone in terms of

New @FREOPP: Updated report on #COVID19 nursing home fatalities with the latest data as of Friday. https://freopp.org/the-covid-19-nursing-home-crisis-by-the-numbers-3a47433c3f70 Nursing homes & assisted living facilities now represent

Correct, we don't have "gating criteria"—our core concept is that the conventional gating criteria falsely assume that everyone is at equal risk of morbidity & mortality from #COVID19. The evidence

New @FREOPP: There is no request I get more often than to compare the risk of fatality from #COVID19 vs. the flu by age bracket. So I’ve put one together,

So yesterday, I spoke at a roundtable hosted by the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs committee, at which I talked about how we can reopen the economy even if