“Where have all the patients gone?” That’s what doctors in our West Virginia University hospitals began asking as the coronavirus pandemic spread. We were prepared for a rise in COVID-19 patients, but we didn’t expect the sharp decline we saw in everyday cases. Our emergency department visits fell by half in early April, a time
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Editor’s Note: Sidney Powell is a former federal prosecutor who has practiced law, primarily in the Fifth Federal Circuit for decades. She is also the author of License to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. Powell is currently Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s lawyer, after Flynn dismissed the Covington & Burling attorneys who
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Memento mori. That’s Latin in short form for “Remember, you too shall die.” Recently I read Erik Larson’s The Splendid And The Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, in which he paints in vivid detail the people and the events of that time when Britain stood alone against the might of
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Like rivets popping on the hull of the sinking Titanic, the stresses of the pandemic are revealing unexpected weaknesses in our societies. Suddenly we’ve realized that it wasn’t a great idea to source protective masks from China, that warehousing the elderly is dangerous, that we need check-out chicks more than we need managers, and so
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Wisconsin’s State Supreme Court struck down Emergency Order 28 on Wednesday, lifting the “Safer at Home Order” that Gov. Tony Evers’ administration sought to impose upon Wisconsinites. The Republican-led state legislature sued Andrea Palm, the secretary-designee of the Department of Health Services, for failing to follow emergency rule procedures necessitated by state law. They argued that the
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In August 1884, Washington Gladden, possibly the most famous Christian preacher in the America of his day, wrote an article in The Century Magazine on “Three Dangers” besetting the welfare of the nation he loved. Of the first and third dangers he named, intemperance and gambling, I have little to say here. I will note
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