Policy & Ethics

Interstate water wars are heating up along with the climate  

Eight years after Rachel Carson's bestseller Silent Spring sold half a million copies and turned environmental protection into a cultural juggernaut, Earth Day was inaugurated as an annual event.

Today the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is holding hearings entitled “An Epidemic Within a Pandemic: Understanding Substance Use and Misuse in America.” I was asked by the Subcommittee to submit a&nbsp

Vaccination and masks

The study involved asking 2,000 participants in RAND’s American Life Panel (ALP) their level of trust of the CDC, USPS, and FEMA in May and again in October. Here are the results weighted to reflect our nation’s population.

Urgent care centers (UCC) are increasingly common and maligned by some as “docs in a box.” They provide a range of acute care services that could be found in a primary care office but have better hours and shorter wait times – they are more conven

According to provisional 2020 year-end statistics, Alzheimer’s disease remained among the leading causes of death, increasing last year by almost 10%.

Background

So, are vaccine passports legal? In a word, yes. They are legal if the various governments want them to be.  But are they ethical?

"Over 100 fully vaccinated people contract COVID-19 in Washington state, officials say."