Topline About a third of all Americans are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, but health experts caution reaching the crucial 70% to 90% threshold will be much tougher as certain portions of the American public, namely Republicans, shy away from the shot—a fact borne out by data showing most of the least vaccinated states voted for…

(CNN)Pfizer/BioNTech has initiated its application to the US Food and Drug Administration for full FDA approval of its Covid-19 vaccine for people ages 16 and older, the companies said Friday. This is the first Covid-19 vaccine in the United States to be assessed for full approval from the FDA. Pfizer’s mRNA two-shot vaccine is currently…

From the beginning, COVID restrictions have been senseless and self-contradictory. When will we admit it?After a haystack of should-have-been last straws, the most recent COVID guidelines from the CDC have finally pushed me over the edge. As a physician who saw COVID patients on a regular basis during the pandemic, I completely understand the logic…

Activist judges have seized on mask violations as a flimsy justification for denying parents custody of their children.In April 2020, NBC ran a story about a doctor in Florida who was kept from her children on the pretense that her job posed a COVID risk to them. That same month, CNN ran a story about…

The first randomized controlled trial to compare the illicit psychedelic psilocybin with a conventional selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant found that the former improved symptoms of depression just as well on an established metric—and had fewer side effects. The study was fairly small, however, and was not explicitly intended to show how well the…