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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The various proposals all have the goal of encouraging early reporting of, and response to, potentially serious disease outbreaks.
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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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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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The COVID-19 pandemic has (yet again) disclosed that the notion of borders resembles a distinct emanation of legal fiction.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has blatantly exposed the flaws of the World Health Organization and its International Health Regulations.
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We argue that the human right to participation should extend to permanent seats and votes for civil society and affected communities on governance boards.
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The prism of the “shared responsibility model” provides an opportunity to consider potential global health governance models for emergency actions.
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Tackling the question of how to address the needs for sharing scientific research is fundamental to any pandemic treaty discussion.
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Only a legally enforceable framework can ensure that solidarity is matched with reciprocity that is in the global public interest.
