Against American Public Health Exceptionalism
Americans are no doubt conditioned to expect spectacular failure in the face of public health crises.
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Read more: Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how U.S. health law and policy fails to protect people in custody.
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Read more: The Years of Magical Thinking: Pandemic Necrosecurity Under Trump and Biden The Years of Magical Thinking: Pandemic Necrosecurity Under Trump and Biden
Death represents the de facto solution to many of the conundrums posed by the pandemic.
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Read more: Introduction to the Symposium: Health Law and Policy in an Era of Mass Suffering Introduction to the Symposium: Health Law and Policy in an Era of Mass Suffering
In this symposium, our hope is to acknowledge — and mourn — this current era of mass suffering and death.
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Read more: Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic
The present pandemic nightmare is an especially acute manifestation of capitalist society’s tendency to kill many, regularly.
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Read more: Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID
This symposium aims to address the critical junctures of health, disability, and work at the heart of the domestic policy response to COVID-19.
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Read more: Please Keep Your Masks On Please Keep Your Masks On
Wearing masks in common, indoor spaces is such a small, easy, powerful act to help prevent the spread of disease.
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Read more: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present) A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present)
The Biden administration decided to go full speed ahead into a wave of Omicron infection, even as other countries have introduced targeted restrictions.
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Read more: A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021) 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.
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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.
