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Against American Public Health Exceptionalism

Bill of Health

Americans are no doubt conditioned to expect spectacular failure in the face of public health crises. The United States had been ravaged for decades by a shape-shifting drug overdose crisis before the emergence of COVID-19. Just as COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. Just as COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.

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The Proposed TRIPS Compromise Risks Setting Several Bad Precedents

Bill of Health

On March 15, 2022, STAT published text of a proposed compromise at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily relax global standards for intellectual property for COVID-19. In short, the compromise only waives a single 20-word paragraph in one article: the one dealing with exports under a non-voluntary authorization.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary 3 | Monthly Update 2021

SQA

Commission Extends Transparency and Authorization Mechanism for Exports of COVID-19 Vaccines, 11 March 2021. The EC has extended until the end of June 2021 the transparency and authorization mechanism for COVID-19 vaccine exports. The EU continues to be the leading provider of vaccines around the world.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

billion behavioral health contract to Centene Idaho Drops Panel Investigating Pregnancy-Related Deaths as US Maternal Mortality Surges Kootenai Health CEO to retire after nonprofit conversion Kootenai Health on track for nonprofit conversion Ammon Bundy a no-show for beginning of St. How did we get here? to 18 central Mass.

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A Texas Mess

Drug & Device Law

So we do have comments on the bizarre complaint that the Texas attorney general recently filed over COVID-19. The complaint, brought under the Texas consumer protection statute, sued a major manufacturer of COVID-19 vaccine that was used to control the recent pandemic. 247d(a), 247d-6d(a)(1). Strike three.