Does It Really Matter How the COVID-19 Pandemic Started?
Debating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic is a fool’s errand. Considering laboratory accidents writ large, however, is important.
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Read more: Using Legal Preparedness to Minimize Liability Barriers to Accessing Pandemic Vaccine and Medical Countermeasures Using Legal Preparedness to Minimize Liability Barriers to Accessing Pandemic Vaccine and Medical Countermeasures
Inefficiencies in negotiating vaccine procurement agreements during COVID-19 could have been attenuated with greater legal preparedness.
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Read more: The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform
The various proposals all have the goal of encouraging early reporting of, and response to, potentially serious disease outbreaks.
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Read more: The Right to Participation in Global Health Governance: Lessons Learned The Right to Participation in Global Health Governance: Lessons Learned
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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Read more: FRAND Terms for Pandemic-essential Intellectual Property Rights FRAND Terms for Pandemic-essential Intellectual Property Rights
The use of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) terms in the licensing of intellectual property rights could foster cooperation in pandemics.
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Read more: Killing Locally or Killing Globally? Inequalities in Framing Cooperation Through Pandemics Killing Locally or Killing Globally? Inequalities in Framing Cooperation Through Pandemics
The international community must avoid entrenching in international law a system indifferent to right-to-health core obligations.
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Read more: 21st Century Lawmaking in an Interdependent World 21st Century Lawmaking in an Interdependent World
A new pandemic instrument should explicitly embrace the three emerging global regulatory standards of due diligence, due regard, and regulatory coherence.
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Read more: Strengthening International Legal Authorities to Advance Global Health Security Strengthening International Legal Authorities to Advance Global Health Security
An innovative pandemic treaty could become a transformative model of global solidarity in the face of common threats.
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Read more: Moving Beyond a State-Centric Pandemic Preparedness Paradigm: A Call for Action Moving Beyond a State-Centric Pandemic Preparedness Paradigm: A Call for Action
The state-centric infectious disease regime violates the fundamental principle of how contagious diseases spread within and across countries.
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Read more: Expendable Lives and COVID-19 Expendable Lives and COVID-19
Medical neocolonialism does not exist in a vacuum. It is tied to the presumed expendability of Black life.
