COVID-19
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Latest work in COVID-19
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- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Deadly Effects of Nursing Home Lockdowns | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Working Papers Working Papers
A Revised Economic Analysis For OSHA's COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
D.C. Indoor Vaccine Mandate Didn’t Spur Vaccinations or Slow COVID-19 | The Washington Times
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Rapid Antigen Tests: A Missed Opportunity | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Politics Aside, Did Indoor Vaccine Mandates Work? | The Hill
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Evidence Shows Philadelphia’s Indoor Vaccine Mandate Didn’t Work | InsideSources
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Scandalous Effects of Nursing Home Isolation During COVID-19 | The Hill
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Radio Appearance Radio Appearance
Citywide Vaccine Mandates Did Nothing to Stop COVID’s Spread | Talk Radio 1210 WPHT (PA)
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Radio Appearance Radio Appearance
Effectiveness of Vaccine Mandates | Fox News Radio
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Indoor Vaccine Mandates in US Cities, Vaccination Behavior, and COVID-19 Outcomes
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Study Shows DC’s Indoor Vaccine Mandate Didn’t Work | Fox News 5 (DC)
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Indoor Vaccine Mandates Failed Intended Objectives | Fox News 5 (DC)
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Understanding Nonprofit and Government Ownership: Evidence from Nursing Homes in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
COVID-19 Policies: Will There Be a Reckoning? | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Information vs. Implementation | Discourse
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
China’s Lockdowns | "Newt's World"
Latest work in COVID-19
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Deadly Effects of Nursing Home Lockdowns | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Working Papers Working Papers
A Revised Economic Analysis For OSHA's COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
D.C. Indoor Vaccine Mandate Didn’t Spur Vaccinations or Slow COVID-19 | The Washington Times
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Rapid Antigen Tests: A Missed Opportunity | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Politics Aside, Did Indoor Vaccine Mandates Work? | The Hill
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Evidence Shows Philadelphia’s Indoor Vaccine Mandate Didn’t Work | InsideSources
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Scandalous Effects of Nursing Home Isolation During COVID-19 | The Hill
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Radio Appearance Radio Appearance
Citywide Vaccine Mandates Did Nothing to Stop COVID’s Spread | Talk Radio 1210 WPHT (PA)
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Radio Appearance Radio Appearance
Effectiveness of Vaccine Mandates | Fox News Radio
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Indoor Vaccine Mandates in US Cities, Vaccination Behavior, and COVID-19 Outcomes
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Study Shows DC’s Indoor Vaccine Mandate Didn’t Work | Fox News 5 (DC)
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Indoor Vaccine Mandates Failed Intended Objectives | Fox News 5 (DC)
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Understanding Nonprofit and Government Ownership: Evidence from Nursing Homes in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
COVID-19 Policies: Will There Be a Reckoning? | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Information vs. Implementation | Discourse
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
China’s Lockdowns | "Newt's World"
Latest work in COVID-19
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Working Papers Working Papers
A Revised Economic Analysis For OSHA's COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Indoor Vaccine Mandates in US Cities, Vaccination Behavior, and COVID-19 Outcomes
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Understanding Nonprofit and Government Ownership: Evidence from Nursing Homes in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
A Snapshot of Healthcare Regulations in Southeastern States
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Crisis as a Source of Social Capital
Adaptation and Formation of Social Capital during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Governing Nested Externalities during a Pandemic
Social Distancing as a Coproduction Problem
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Expert failure and pandemics
On adapting to life with pandemics
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The Rules of Reason
COVID-19, Buchanan, and Hayek
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The political economy of drug and alcohol regulation during the COVID‐19 pandemic
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
More Immigration Needed to Offset COVID-19 and America’s Demographic Decline
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
COVID-19 Vaccine Administration and Pharmacist Scope of Practice Reform
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Examining Certificate-of-Need Laws in the Context of the Rural Health Crisis
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Pandemic Recovery and State and Local Pension Reform
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Working Papers Working Papers
COVID-19 and the Fed’s Credit Policy
Latest work in COVID-19
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Radio Appearance Radio Appearance
Citywide Vaccine Mandates Did Nothing to Stop COVID’s Spread | Talk Radio 1210 WPHT (PA)
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Radio Appearance Radio Appearance
Effectiveness of Vaccine Mandates | Fox News Radio
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Study Shows DC’s Indoor Vaccine Mandate Didn’t Work | Fox News 5 (DC)
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Indoor Vaccine Mandates Failed Intended Objectives | Fox News 5 (DC)
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
China’s Lockdowns | "Newt's World"
- | Radio Appearance Radio Appearance
International COVID Restrictions | The John Batchelor Radio Show
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Weifeng Zhong on C-SPAN Washington Journal - China, Trade, and COVID (Part 3)
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Weifeng Zhong on C-SPAN Washington Journal - China, Trade, and COVID (Part 2)
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Scott Sumner on Made in America - COVID Unemployment Benefits
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Michael Farren on Sirius XM - COVID Unemployment Benefits
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Discourse Magazine Podcast Discourse Magazine Podcast
Fortress and Frontier: What the Data Say About COVID-19
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Mercatus Policy Download Mercatus Policy Download
India's COVID-19 Crisis
What can be done to help India mitigate the virus?
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Donald Boudreaux on WIND - Herd Immunity
- | TV Appearance TV Appearance
Shruti Rajagopalan on NBC News - India's COVID Spike
Latest work in COVID-19
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | State Testimonies State Testimonies
Telemedicine Is Evolving Rapidly; Legal Definitions and Reimbursement Methods Need to Evolve with It
Testimony before the Colorado General Assembly, Senate Health and Human Services Committee
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
Congress Should Reflect on Past Financial Relief Before Providing More
Testimony before the US Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- | (Prelease) 2020 Edition: Healthcare Openness and Access Project Prerelease (Prelease) 2020 Edition: Healthcare Openness and Access Project Prerelease
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
New Jersey (#51) | COVID-19 Health Policy Recommendations: Increasing Access to Care in the States (March 2020 Prerelease)
New Jersey Ranks #51 in the Healthcare Openness and Access Project (HOAP) 2020: Prerelease
Latest work in COVID-19
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Deadly Effects of Nursing Home Lockdowns | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
D.C. Indoor Vaccine Mandate Didn’t Spur Vaccinations or Slow COVID-19 | The Washington Times
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Rapid Antigen Tests: A Missed Opportunity | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Politics Aside, Did Indoor Vaccine Mandates Work? | The Hill
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Evidence Shows Philadelphia’s Indoor Vaccine Mandate Didn’t Work | InsideSources
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Scandalous Effects of Nursing Home Isolation During COVID-19 | The Hill
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
COVID-19 Policies: Will There Be a Reckoning? | Open Health Policy
- | Healthcare Healthcare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Information vs. Implementation | Discourse
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Pessimists Were Correct About COVID | EconLib
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Lessons of the Great Pandemic Migration | The Wall Street Journal
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Covid’s Gales of Change: A Golden Age for Entrepreneurs?
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Even Mild Omicron Could Create Severe Chaos | Bloomberg Opinion
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
On Pfizer, COVID, and Charity | InsideSources
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
‘Uncontrolled Spread’ Review: Tested and Found Wanting
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Explanation for Seemingly Irrational COVID Behavior
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary