Payments for COVID-19 Vaccination: Ethical and Legal Considerations
Should we pay people to receive COVID-19 vaccines? This post summarizes key ethical and legal considerations.
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Read more: Religious Exemptions to Vaccines and the Anti-Vax Movement Religious Exemptions to Vaccines and the Anti-Vax Movement
Granting exemptions on the basis of religion incentivizes people to lie, and exemptions are more likely to be given to people who have lied well.
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Read more: What Can the Federal Government Do When States Make Dangerous Decisions? What Can the Federal Government Do When States Make Dangerous Decisions?
The federal government has all the power it needs to stop the actions of individual states that put the entire nation at risk.
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Read more: The Only Constant is Resistance to Change: A Flaw in the US Response to Public Health Crises The Only Constant is Resistance to Change: A Flaw in the US Response to Public Health Crises
Law’s inherent bias towards stability is poorly suited to the challenges of addressing rapidly evolving public health crises.
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Read more: America’s Underinsurance Crisis in the Age of COVID-19 America’s Underinsurance Crisis in the Age of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the underinsurance crisis that has long kept millions of Americans on the precipice of financial disaster.
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Read more: A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Global Classism A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Global Classism
As the rich get richer, those of low socioeconomic status are doubly marginalized by the classism that characterizes the international pandemic response.
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Read more: A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Western Ideas of Health A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Western Ideas of Health
In concentrating on largely Western conceptions of health, the international pandemic response paid insufficient attention to realities in the Global South.
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Read more: A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Data Colonialism A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Data Colonialism
In affording asymmetric protection to those in the Global North, the technified coronavirus response exemplifies digital colonialism.
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Read more: Passing the Buck: What the CDC Guidance on Masks Gets Wrong About Public Health Passing the Buck: What the CDC Guidance on Masks Gets Wrong About Public Health
This shift in policy unfairly burdens small businesses and individuals to be the guardians of public health.
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Read more: What Makes a Bad Public Health Decision? And How Can We Make Good Ones? What Makes a Bad Public Health Decision? And How Can We Make Good Ones?
Bad public health decisions are made in siloes. Good public health decisions require the pooled expertise of a multi-disciplinary, non-hierarchical team.
