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Can Children Consent to the COVID Vaccine? The Case of Foster Care and Juvenile Justice

Bill of Health

Some children may be unvaccinated by no choice of their own, but instead because of decisions made by parents, guardians, or state or local government officials. In this post, I argue that young people should have the opportunity to consent to vaccines. Bureau 1, 2 (2014); Robert B. Omicron Surge , Bloomberg (Dec. & Fams.,

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary 3 | Monthly Update 2021

SQA

generic, biosimilar, or hybrid application), informed consent is irrelevant provided that both applications relate to a medicinal product with the same qualitative and quantitative composition in active substances and the same pharmaceutical form. Russia – Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

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PREP Act Immunity: Baghikian v. Providence Health & Servs.

Drug & Device Law

Not all that long after the PREP Act passed, the COVID-19 pandemic started, quickly confirming the importance of freeing government and industry to work together to deploy every type of desperately needed medical resource. The government issued the necessary “public health emergency” declaration in March 2020, and the PREP Act kicked in.