Public Health Law and Civil Rights Laws Must Work Together to Rise to the Challenge of Long COVID
The need for public health laws and policies that align with and reinforce civil rights protections is greater than ever.
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Read more: How the Unpredictable Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Infection Pose a Challenge That Tort Law Cannot Meet How the Unpredictable Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Infection Pose a Challenge That Tort Law Cannot Meet
Statutes of limitation present a significant hurdle for plaintiffs experiencing harms from COVID-19 infection.
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Read more: COVID-19 as Disability Interest Convergence? COVID-19 as Disability Interest Convergence?
During the pandemic, disability rights have been negotiable and vulnerable to sacrifice in service of the needs of able-bodied, neurotypical people.
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Read more: Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’ Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’
We know that COVID can affect our brains in ways both serious and subtle. How can our law and policy infrastructure understand and deal with its effects?
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Read more: Mobilizing Long COVID Awareness to Better Support People with Acquired Disabilities Mobilizing Long COVID Awareness to Better Support People with Acquired Disabilities
The upswell of advocacy around Long COVID should be mobilized to call attention to and address the challenges faced by newly-disabled adults.
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Read more: Long COVID and Physical Reductionism Long COVID and Physical Reductionism
Long COVID plaintiffs seeking disability anti-discrimination law protections have been met with suspicion and demands for evidence.
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Read more: Re-Imagining Work in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Arendtian Lens Re-Imagining Work in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Arendtian Lens
The ‘needs’ of people who find themselves confronting disability and illness should not be marginalized, as they are simply modes of the human condition.
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Read more: Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of our current disability laws and policies, particularly those related to economic insecurity.
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Read more: Blue Booking Long COVID: Accounting for Long-Term COVID-19 Complications in Social Security Disability Benefits Evaluations Blue Booking Long COVID: Accounting for Long-Term COVID-19 Complications in Social Security Disability Benefits Evaluations
The Social Security Administration should amend the Blue Book to include Long COVID in its determination of disability benefits.
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Read more: How Long COVID Is Forcing a Reckoning with the Neglect of Post-Infectious Chronic Illnesses How Long COVID Is Forcing a Reckoning with the Neglect of Post-Infectious Chronic Illnesses
COVID Long Haulers and patient advocates for the chronically ill are forcing an unprecedented recognition for these chronic complex diseases.
