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Coronavirus
Read Dr. Henry Miller in Healthline: A COVID-19 Vaccine by January?
A COVID-19 Vaccine by January? Here’s Why It’s Possible But Not Likely By Christopher Curley The timeline to develop a safe, effective vaccine to fight a virus is typically counted in years — or even decades. But with the COVID-19 pandemic affecting millions around the world and killing hundreds of thousands of ...
Coronavirus
Listen to Lance Izumi Discuss Online Learning During COVID-19 on “The Freedom Line” Podcast
Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss online learning and homeschooling during the COVID-19 crisis with host Renee Giachino on the Center for Individual Freedom’s “Freedom Line” podcast. Click here to listen
Coronavirus
Watch: Online Learning and Homeschooling Options During the COVID-19 Crisis
Watch the latest Pacific Research Institute webinar featuring a panel of policy experts, education specialists, and homeschooling practitioners discussing how schools and parents have transitioned to schooling at home through the use of distance and online-learning tools and curricula. The panelists discuss the many options available to parents and how ...
Coronavirus
Dr. Henry Miller Quoted in Yahoo! on Coronavirus, Hydroxychloroquine Debate
How hydroxychloroquine toes the line between promise and ‘happy talk’ in the coronavirus fight By: Anjalee Khemlani After weeks of polarizing debate over the use of two generic anti-malarial drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, the Food and Drug Administration this week warned they were not “safe and effective” when used on ...
Business & Economics
Watch: How CA Can Embrace Entrepreneurship and Small Business in an Economic Downturn
Watch Pacific Research Institute’s inaugural panel webinar featuring a panel of business experts and entrepreneurs analyzing how California can recover economically from the coronavirus pandemic. The panel looks at the current economic outlook resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and talks about current or new policies that should be passed, put ...
California
“AB5 Makes No Sense” Says Wayne Winegarden in Washington Free Beacon
California Law Limiting Independent Contractors is Hindering Coronavirus Response, Experts Say By Collin Anderson, The Washington Free Beacon Democratic California governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday rebuffed calls to suspend a controversial labor law that experts say hinders the state’s pandemic response and hurts vulnerable workers. State and federal legislators, small ...
Featured
NEW BRIEF: Expanding “Buy America” Rules Would Hurt U.S. Patients and Economy, Hinder Development of Coronavirus Vaccine
Expanding “Buy America” rules for prescription drugs and medical supplies would reduce patient access to drugs and further damage the economy, finds a new issue brief released today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute. Click here to download the brief “As the U.S. ...
California
PRI’s Tim Anaya discusses Coronavirus on Commonwealth Club Week to Week Political Roundtable
Watch Tim Anaya, PRI’s senior director of communications and the Sacramento office, discuss how the political and economic impact of the coronavirus on a special livestream of the Commonwealth Club’s “Week to Week” Political Roundtable, moderated by John Zipperer. Other panelists include Dr. Gina Baleria, Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Quoted Refuting ‘Medicare for all,” Coronavirus
Title: Sanders & AOC Use CoronaVirus to Push Argument for ‘Medicare-for-All’ By: Jim Cardle Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – who is off the campaign trail due to the CoronaVirus threat – was asked if he felt frustrated that his fellow Democrat and presidential nominee competitor Joe Biden had attacked his “Medicare-for-All” ...
Climate Change
PRI’s Lance Izumi Featured in Heartland Institute Piece on Climate Change Education Plan
Title: California Considers Imposing Climate Change Education By Kenneth Artz A bill under consideration in the California legislature would require schoolchildren to learn humans are causing dangerous climate change, in order to graduate. A.B. 1922 would require a climate change curriculum for students in grades 1 through 6, and knowledge ...
Read Dr. Henry Miller in Healthline: A COVID-19 Vaccine by January?
A COVID-19 Vaccine by January? Here’s Why It’s Possible But Not Likely By Christopher Curley The timeline to develop a safe, effective vaccine to fight a virus is typically counted in years — or even decades. But with the COVID-19 pandemic affecting millions around the world and killing hundreds of thousands of ...
Listen to Lance Izumi Discuss Online Learning During COVID-19 on “The Freedom Line” Podcast
Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss online learning and homeschooling during the COVID-19 crisis with host Renee Giachino on the Center for Individual Freedom’s “Freedom Line” podcast. Click here to listen
Watch: Online Learning and Homeschooling Options During the COVID-19 Crisis
Watch the latest Pacific Research Institute webinar featuring a panel of policy experts, education specialists, and homeschooling practitioners discussing how schools and parents have transitioned to schooling at home through the use of distance and online-learning tools and curricula. The panelists discuss the many options available to parents and how ...
Dr. Henry Miller Quoted in Yahoo! on Coronavirus, Hydroxychloroquine Debate
How hydroxychloroquine toes the line between promise and ‘happy talk’ in the coronavirus fight By: Anjalee Khemlani After weeks of polarizing debate over the use of two generic anti-malarial drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, the Food and Drug Administration this week warned they were not “safe and effective” when used on ...
Watch: How CA Can Embrace Entrepreneurship and Small Business in an Economic Downturn
Watch Pacific Research Institute’s inaugural panel webinar featuring a panel of business experts and entrepreneurs analyzing how California can recover economically from the coronavirus pandemic. The panel looks at the current economic outlook resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and talks about current or new policies that should be passed, put ...
“AB5 Makes No Sense” Says Wayne Winegarden in Washington Free Beacon
California Law Limiting Independent Contractors is Hindering Coronavirus Response, Experts Say By Collin Anderson, The Washington Free Beacon Democratic California governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday rebuffed calls to suspend a controversial labor law that experts say hinders the state’s pandemic response and hurts vulnerable workers. State and federal legislators, small ...
NEW BRIEF: Expanding “Buy America” Rules Would Hurt U.S. Patients and Economy, Hinder Development of Coronavirus Vaccine
Expanding “Buy America” rules for prescription drugs and medical supplies would reduce patient access to drugs and further damage the economy, finds a new issue brief released today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute. Click here to download the brief “As the U.S. ...
PRI’s Tim Anaya discusses Coronavirus on Commonwealth Club Week to Week Political Roundtable
Watch Tim Anaya, PRI’s senior director of communications and the Sacramento office, discuss how the political and economic impact of the coronavirus on a special livestream of the Commonwealth Club’s “Week to Week” Political Roundtable, moderated by John Zipperer. Other panelists include Dr. Gina Baleria, Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University ...
Sally Pipes Quoted Refuting ‘Medicare for all,” Coronavirus
Title: Sanders & AOC Use CoronaVirus to Push Argument for ‘Medicare-for-All’ By: Jim Cardle Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – who is off the campaign trail due to the CoronaVirus threat – was asked if he felt frustrated that his fellow Democrat and presidential nominee competitor Joe Biden had attacked his “Medicare-for-All” ...
PRI’s Lance Izumi Featured in Heartland Institute Piece on Climate Change Education Plan
Title: California Considers Imposing Climate Change Education By Kenneth Artz A bill under consideration in the California legislature would require schoolchildren to learn humans are causing dangerous climate change, in order to graduate. A.B. 1922 would require a climate change curriculum for students in grades 1 through 6, and knowledge ...
