Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure
Science, law, and the principle of “do not harm” all concur about the path to keeping patients safe from disease and hospitals safe from liability.
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Read more: Ethical and Legal Challenges Faced by Hospitals in New York’s First COVID-19 Surge Ethical and Legal Challenges Faced by Hospitals in New York’s First COVID-19 Surge
Supporting doctors and health care workers during times of crisis requires making concrete plans in advance for the worst case scenarios.
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Read more: New Data Reignites Concerns over COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in New York State New Data Reignites Concerns over COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in New York State
Concerns over New York State’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic have recently re-emerged in light of a new report and court ruling related to the matter.
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Read more: COVID-19 and Nursing Homes: The New York State Experience COVID-19 and Nursing Homes: The New York State Experience
Questions continue over whether more might have been done to protect patients in nursing homes and other congregate settings in New York State.
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Read more: Finetuning Liability Protections in the COVID-19 Emergency Finetuning Liability Protections in the COVID-19 Emergency
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and many states enacted liability limitations for health care practioners and facilities.
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Read more: COVID-19 and Organ Transplantation COVID-19 and Organ Transplantation
A banner year for organ transplantation in the United States became a tattered memory by April 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
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Read more: Lawsuits as Conduits for Misinformation During COVID-19 Lawsuits as Conduits for Misinformation During COVID-19
In addition to tracing the early history of the Missouri and New York suits, we explain how these lawsuits are being used as conduits for misinformation.
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Read more: How the New York Court of Appeals Applied the Soda Cap Criteria to Vaccines How the New York Court of Appeals Applied the Soda Cap Criteria to Vaccines
By Dorit Reiss New York’s Court of Appeals reversed an Appellate Division decision and reinstated New York City’s influenza mandate for city daycares in Garcia v. New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in June. Applying the same criteria the court used in 2014 to overturn the city’s controversial Soda Cap, the court…