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Dying Patients Denied Care in Locked-Down Xi’an Sparks Public Outrage

On New Year’s Day in the locked-down Chinese city of Xi’an, a woman who was eight months pregnant miscarried while waiting in the freezing cold outside a hospital. She had been denied entry because her negative COVID-19 test result was invalid by a few hours. One hand supported her belly as she leaned on the…


Donald Boudreaux: The Deafening Silence of Economists During COVID-19 and the Abandonment of Logic

“People talk about long COVID. … I worry about long lockdown.” At the Brownstone Institute’s inaugural conference, I sat down with Donald Boudreaux, a professor of economics at George Mason University and a senior fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research. In the age of COVID-19, most economists failed to do their jobs, he…


The Search for COVID-19 Origin: New Book Leans Toward Lab Leak

It’s been almost two years since COVID-19 struck, and the origin of the virus remains a mystery. Did the virus jump from animals to humans in a natural spillover event, or was it the result of a laboratory leak? A new book explores these and other questions on the source of the coronavirus that has…


Trapped in a ‘Dead’ City: The Cost of China’s Zero-COVID Policy

He may be short in years, but not so with his COVID-19 testing record. At barely 2 years of age, the boy was born at a time of great upheaval—in January 2020 at the start of the pandemic, just days after Beijing instituted lockdown policies following a weeks-long delay in admitting the severity of the…


Natural Immunity: an Alternative to Vaccines?

News Analysis Senator Rand Paul’s (R.-Ky) question was simple: “Are you a doctor—a medical doctor?” asked Paul, a licensed medical doctor, at a hearing on Sept. 30. “I have worked over thirty years on health policy,” answered Xavier Becerra, who is secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. “You’re not a medical doctor….


Chinese Regime Says Wuhan Lab Scientists ‘Should Be Awarded the Nobel Prize’

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson claims the Wuhan lab researchers deserve the Nobel Prize just as calls renew for a harder look into whether the virus that causes COVID-19 could have leaked from the facility. The Wuhan Institute of Virology, or WIV, hosts China’s first P4 laboratory, the highest biosafety designation that allows it to…


Strict Lockdown Measures in China Push Couple to Verge of Despair

A Chinese couple were pushed to the verge of despair by strict restrictions during 70 days of quarantine when their city was in lockdown to stem an outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Earlier this year, several cities in northern China’s Hebei province—Nangong, Xingtai, Langfang, and Shijiazhuang—were all placed under strict lockdown following…


Chinese Officials Trying to Dodge COVID-19 Vaccinations, Citing Health Reasons: Leaked Documents

As the Chinese regime races to inoculate tens of millions through coercive policies and a propaganda blitz, some local officials are quietly dodging the shots themselves. Amid Beijing’s aggressive vaccine push, dozens of officials from parts of Liaoning, a province in northeastern China, have cited various health reasons not to take the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine,…


Blinken Suggests Punishing China for Pandemic Not a Priority

Secretary of State Antony Blinken remained elusive when asked whether the United States will hold the Chinese regime accountable for how it handled the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the attention should be on preventing future pandemics. “I think the issue for us is to make sure that we do everything possible to prevent another pandemic, even…


‘Disinformation’: US Rejects Chinese State-Run Media Reports About American Diplomats in Hong Kong

The U.S. State Department has accused Chinese state-run media of reporting disinformation about its diplomats in Hong Kong who recently tested positive for COVID-19. Washington temporarily closed its consulate in Hong Kong for “deep disinfection and cleaning” on March 15 after two of its American employees came down with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which…