Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics
Research funding contracts can help to safeguard against inequities in global allocation and distribution of lifesaving diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines.
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Read more: Workplace Accommodations in a Post-COVID Era Workplace Accommodations in a Post-COVID Era
As more of the workforce returns to the office, some employers are pushing back on the increased accommodations realized during the pandemic.
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Read more: Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity
People with physical impairments can be enabled or disabled by the world around them.
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Read more: Fostering Mentally Healthier Workplaces via Disability Advocacy: COVID-Era Strategies and Successes Fostering Mentally Healthier Workplaces via Disability Advocacy: COVID-Era Strategies and Successes
The Manic Monologues highlights diverse accounts of mental health and illness to spread awareness, fight stigma, and foster community.
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Read more: Employers Should Bear Responsibility for Making Remote Work Environments Accessible Employers Should Bear Responsibility for Making Remote Work Environments Accessible
Employers must take steps to ensure that remote work accommodations are not made at the expense of the employee.
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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: Our New Remote Workplace Culture Creates Opportunities for Disabled Employees Our New Remote Workplace Culture Creates Opportunities for Disabled Employees
This shift in our workplace culture presents employment opportunities for disabled people that they may not have had in the past.
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Read more: Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply
Workplaces are, by and large, no longer safe for employees who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19.
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Read more: Reconsidering Mask Mandates Reconsidering Mask Mandates
Removing mask requirements means rejecting yet another public health tool to control the pandemic and protect our health care system.
