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.
Infectious Diseases
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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: Coronavirus Negligence: Liability for COVID-19 Transmission Coronavirus Negligence: Liability for COVID-19 Transmission
Can people infected with COVID-19 sue the people who transmitted the disease to them for negligence, even if those people did not do so knowingly?
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Read more: Organs and Overdoses (Part II): ‘Higher risk’ donors Organs and Overdoses (Part II): ‘Higher risk’ donors
By Brad Segal In my last post I characterized how overdoses from the surging opioid epidemic have become the fastest-growing cause of mortality among organ donors. In this update, I raise one potential consequence with ethical and policy implications: so-called donor-derived infections. To be clear, I focus primarily on organ recipients as deaths from drug overdose,…
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Read more: The Globalization of Infectious Diseases The Globalization of Infectious Diseases
By Rachel Sachs The recent arrival of Ebola in the United States has captured the attention of both the public and the media for many reasons. One key reason is that Ebola is making many people realize for the first time that serious diseases which were formerly confined largely to developing countries have the potential to…