A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021)
The “tools” stood for individual choices based on personal risk tolerance rather than elements of regulatory frameworks to be pursued by the government.
Vaccines
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Read more: Will NIH Learn from Myriad when Settling Its mRNA Inventorship Dispute with Moderna? Will NIH Learn from Myriad when Settling Its mRNA Inventorship Dispute with Moderna?
The NIH, which funded much of Moderna’s research on the COVID-19 vaccine, should be assertive in exerting control over the results of this research.
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Read more: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 2: A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated (May – Sept. 2021) A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 2: A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated (May – Sept. 2021)
Framing vaccination as a way to opt out of the pandemic has helped absolve the Biden administration of its responsibilities to protect the public’s health.
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Read more: From Shutting Down the Virus to Letting it Rip: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response From Shutting Down the Virus to Letting it Rip: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response
How did we get here? How is our Democratic president — who ran, in part, against Trump’s horrid pandemic response — letting the virus rip?
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Read more: Major Questions about Vaccine Mandates, the Supreme Court, and the Major Questions Doctrine Major Questions about Vaccine Mandates, the Supreme Court, and the Major Questions Doctrine
A doctrine that essentially allows courts to strike down willy-nilly policies that they deem “major” undermines the federal government’s capacity to govern.
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Read more: Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy
Interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues from the month of November 2021.
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Read more: Fall 2021 Health Law Workshops Fall 2021 Health Law Workshops
The Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop provides a forum for discussion of new scholarship in these fields from the world’s leading experts. The workshop is led by Professor I. Glenn Cohen, and presenters come from a wide range of disciplines and departments. Harvard graduate students may register to take the workshop for course…
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Read more: Who Has a Duty to Protect Your Health? The Answer May Surprise You Who Has a Duty to Protect Your Health? The Answer May Surprise You
The sources from which most people get health information provide advice without any obligation at all to individuals who hear and act on it.
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Read more: Being an Adult in the Face of Omicron Being an Adult in the Face of Omicron
It’s up to each of us to demand accountability and transparency, and to stay informed rather than assume others will act in our best interests.
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Read more: Leverage COVID-19 Frameworks to Prepare for the Next Pandemic Leverage COVID-19 Frameworks to Prepare for the Next Pandemic
How should scientists, policy makers, and governments balance efforts to address the current pandemic with initiatives to prevent the next one?
