Bold Steps Needed to Correct Course in US Drug Policies
Moving the United States beyond the opioid overdose crisis and pernicious inequities in law enforcement requires bold, innovative solutions.
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Read more: Consider the Fundamentals of Viruses When Crafting Law and Policy Responses Consider the Fundamentals of Viruses When Crafting Law and Policy Responses
Knowing more about the ways that viruses spread could help us avoid the pitfalls of declaring victory too early.
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Read more: The Consequences of Public Health Law Vacuums The Consequences of Public Health Law Vacuums
Even the best pandemic planning cannot account for elected representatives refusing to govern in the name of public health.
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Read more: The Problem with Individual-Level Interventions to Curb the COVID-19 Pandemic The Problem with Individual-Level Interventions to Curb the COVID-19 Pandemic
The failure to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States rests, in part, on the individualist nature of our public health responses.
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Read more: Amending the Public Health Service Act to Encourage CDC Action to Stop COVID-19 Amending the Public Health Service Act to Encourage CDC Action to Stop COVID-19
The CDC already has all the power it needs to limit the movement of people in order to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Read more: Call for Abstracts: Looking Forward to a Post-Pandemic Landscape Call for Abstracts: Looking Forward to a Post-Pandemic Landscape
The Petrie-Flom Center and the Solomon Center for Health Law Policy are interested in tracking when crisis settles into the new normal.
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Read more: Old and New Ways of Coping with COVID-19: Ethics Matters (Part II) Old and New Ways of Coping with COVID-19: Ethics Matters (Part II)
By Leslie Francis and Margaret Pabst Battin This post is part II of a two-part series on pandemic control strategies in response to COVID-19. New testing methods may allow us to avoid many of the inequities and injustices of the traditional methods of pandemic control, if we can deploy them quickly enough.
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Read more: Old and New Ways of Coping with COVID-19: Ethics Matters (Part I) Old and New Ways of Coping with COVID-19: Ethics Matters (Part I)
Your life and the lives of many others may depend now on isolation, quarantine, cordon sanitaire, shelter in place, or physical distancing.
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Read more: Pandemic Guidelines, Not Changed Malpractice Rules, Are the Right Response to COVID-19 Pandemic Guidelines, Not Changed Malpractice Rules, Are the Right Response to COVID-19
By Valerie Gutmann Koch, Govind Persad, and Wendy Netter Epstein On March 17, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Dr. Jeremy Faust, titled Make This Simple Change to Free Up Hospital Beds Now. In it, he argues that cities and states should “temporarily relax the legal standard of medical malpractice,” in order to encourage…
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Read more: 3 Human Rights Imperatives for Rationing Care in the Time of Coronavirus 3 Human Rights Imperatives for Rationing Care in the Time of Coronavirus
By Alicia Ely Yamin and Ole F. Norheim Scholarly and official statements and publications regarding human rights during the current pandemic have largely reiterated the important lessons learned from HIV/AIDS, Zika and Ebola, such as: engagement with affected communities; combatting stigma and discrimination; ensuring access for the most vulnerable; accounting for gendered effects; and limiting…
