COVID19

  • Read more: Preemption, Paid Leave, and the Health of America
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    Preemption, Paid Leave, and the Health of America

    As the United States continues its response to a seemingly inevitable coronavirus epidemic, experts in law and public health are stressing the importance of supportive social safety nets to ensure an equitable and fair response to the virus’s spread. If you are one of the nearly two million Americans who works for minimum wage, for…

  • Read more: Controlling the Novel Coronavirus: Should we have stopped the COVID-19 coronavirus more effectively? Could we still?
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    Controlling the Novel Coronavirus: Should we have stopped the COVID-19 coronavirus more effectively? Could we still?

    By Margaret Battin, Leslie Francis, Jay Jacobson, and Charles Smith What if, instead of closing airports, shutting down trains and buses, quarantining travelers from China, and enclosing 50 million people inside the city of Wuhan and Hubei province, we had a sophisticated technology that could identify travelers who might spread an emerging infectious disease? This…

    Gloved hand holding medical rapid test labeled COVID-19 over sheet of paper listing the test result as negative.