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Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond

Bill of Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pervasive inequities experienced by historically marginalized communities, including people with disabilities. Although disabled people have always experienced inequities concerning economic security, these disparities have grown substantially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’

Bill of Health

COVID-19 will be with us — in our society and in our brains — for the foreseeable future. This symposium contribution focuses specifically on COVID’s lasting effects in our brains, about which much is still unknown. What does COVID infection do to our brains? By Emily R.D.

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NFIB v. OSHA and Its Contradiction with the GOP’s Disability Employment Agenda

Bill of Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the incoherence of the Republican party’s employment agenda, which, on the one hand, deifies full, in-person employment, and, on the other, makes the workplace hostile to this aim through relentless deregulation. By Doron Dorfman.

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The Pathology (and Politics) of Liability Shields

Bill of Health

Over one million Americans have died from COVID-19, while 20 percent of those who survive may develop post-COVID conditions. With weak safety net policies and high health care costs it would hardly be surprising if our fellow citizens tried to shift some of their COVID costs to arguably responsible defendants.

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Employers and the Future of Public Health

Bill of Health

For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers either incentivized or required employees and customers to be vaccinated and/or masked even in the absence of federal and state mandates. By contrast, in other countries , such as Canada and the United Kingdom, the government pays for all health care.

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Reasons, Rewards, and Tips for a More Accessible and Inclusive Web

Healthcare IT Today

Supporting this is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), intended to protect the civil rights of persons with disabilities when it comes to areas like employment, government services, public accommodations, transportation, and telecommunications. This is due to prior ADA compliance shortfalls.

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Biden Administration Unveils Long-Awaited COVID-19 Rules For Large Employers and Healthcare Workers

Health Law RX

The first rule, issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (the “OSHA Rule”), will require private employers with 100 or more employees to ensure that each of their workers is either fully vaccinated, or tests negative for COVID-19 at least once per week. The OSHA Rule. and wear a face covering.” Verification.