Last week, Gov. Tim Walz announced the “Kids Deserve A Shot” incentive program. Under it, kids who get fully vaccinated for COVID-19 in the next month will get a $200…
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) had influence on the school reopening guidance released in February by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to emails Americans for…
With the debate continuing over the safety of resuming in-person instruction, a new study has added to the growing research that schools can reopen safely even with students and staff…
If this new study's 8 to 1 ratio of total infections to diagnosed cases is correct, then 3,030,584 Minnesotans have been infected with Covid-19, or 54% of the population. This…
The data has consistently failed to support the state government's dire warnings. Rather than ditching the dire warnings, the state government is ditching the data.
For the time being at least, while COVID-19 is still with us, the data is clear: The emergency period of this pandemic is over.
Research strongly suggests that kids face a low risk of contracting the virus and are therefore less likely to spread it. Additionally, children also learn better in the classroom setting…
Which ‘science’ should policymakers believe?
If current trends hold and Covid-19 ICU usage is in the region of 250-300 on July 13th when the model forecasts 3,700, we will have every reason to junk it…
At the end of May, my friend Todd Myers, of the Washington Policy Center, wrote an excellent piece for The Wall Street Journal detailing how Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s response to…
The state's own data shows that there is no case for Gov. Walz continuing to rule by decree.
Gov. Walz tells us that he needs to keep his emergency powers to protect us from Covid-19. How, then, is he managing to produce outcomes so much worse than in…
On May 13th, the state's Covid-19 model forecast 1,441 deaths by the end of May. We had 1,040.
Covid-19 ICU cases are edging up, but by imposing a ban on elective surgeries and then lifting that ban, Gov. Walz has created a simultaneous surge of non-Covid-19 ICU cases.
"We can say with 95 percent confidence that we are going to need a minimum of 3,000 beds starting in the middle of May." -Gov. Walz, April 8th. Yesterday, there…
The state's much vaunted model shows that extending the stay-at-home order to the end of May will see a higher ICU peak and more deaths.
You can't turn a normative question into a positive one. The question 'What will be the consequences of choosing Scenario 3?' is a positive one for 'science' to answer. But…
Since April 10th when the original stay-at-home order was set to expire, 150,669 Minnesotans have filed for unemployment. If the time we bought with their lost jobs to add 'surge…
Good news, but Minnesotans should have access to the best healthcare practitioners who want to come here at any time. To realize that, our state should join the national Nurse Licensure Compact.
Gov. Walz targets of 5,000 Covid-19 tests a day and another 1,100 ICU beds give us something firm to aim for to reopen the state's economy.