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Entities imposing COVID-19 vaccination mandates can take simple but significant steps to counter misuse of medical exemptions.
We must remain cognizant of the many ways metaphors may distort, divide, or misrepresent important details.
While the state AG is incorrect—the Governor can issue a mask order with possible criminal punishments—his opinion and the order raise important concerns.
By Ross D. Silverman This summer, California’s strict new childhood immunization law, barring all exemptions except those needed for medical purposes, went into effect for public and private schools, preschools, and day cares. This law…
By Ross Silverman I’m pleased to share with my Bill of Health colleagues that my home department, the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health…
By Ross D. Silverman This week, the Supreme Court appropriately declined to hear an appeal of a 2nd Circuit decision upholding the right of the state to require vaccination as a condition of enrollment in…
By Ross D. Silverman In the midst of the national discussion of measles and the state laws that foster or inhibit its spread, a curious fact has emerged, as noted recently by my JAMA co-author…
By Ross D. Silverman Earlier this week, the World Health Organization, responding both to the international outcry over the rapidly rising number of Ebola cases and deaths across sub-Saharan Africa (and critiques of the speed…
By Ross D. Silverman, JD, MPH (Twitter: @phlu) Fairbanks School of Public Health and McKinney School of Law, Indiana University, Indianapolis. This has been a big year for outbreaks of Vaccine-Preventable Illnesses (VPIs) in the…
