Politicized Science, by journalist and bestselling author John Tierney, is the next installment in the Institute’s series on COVID-19 that details why sound public health science and best practices were ignored during the pandemic in favour of restrictive lockdowns and other mandates with devastating results.

COVID-19: The Risk in Perspective finds that humanity’s experience with COVID-19 has proven once again that human beings are not particularly adept at perceiving, understanding and rationally acting upon issues involving risk.

Comparing Government and Private Sector Job Growth in the COVID-19 Era is a new study that finds the government sector accounted for nearly 9-in-10 new jobs created since the start of the pandemic, and there has been almost no net job creation in the private sector. In fact, after adjusting for population growth, private sector employment in July 2022 was still below where it was in February 2020 before the pandemic struck.