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In the last several years, notable shifts in Supreme Court jurisprudence have eroded the deference that courts have historically granted to health officials.
The Court’s rejection of group-level data in SFFA portends troubling implications for health equity and health policy.
Public health law needs its own long-term plan. Such a strategy must re-establish salus populi, the recognition that public health is central to law.
Many occupational risks, after all, can be framed as universal. If those protections, too, fall, the most vulnerable will, as always, be most vulnerable.
A doctrine that essentially allows courts to strike down willy-nilly policies that they deem “major” undermines the federal government’s capacity to govern.
Social movements’ impact need not be salutatory, as is evident by the success that the anti-vax movement has had during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our government is beginning to recognize its responsibility to ensure basic functions. Will it continue to do so once the crisis has abated?
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