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Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

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While receiving significant global traction and acceptance since their publication in 1985, the Siracusa Principles, the authors argue, proved to be simply “unequal to the task” of guiding States’ conduct in the context of COVID-19 because they are “unable to speak in any significant detail to the particular concerns of public health crises.”

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Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

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By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view.

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Reasonable Pricing Clauses: A First Step Toward Ensuring Taxpayers a Fair Return on their Public R&D Investment

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Despite having an outsized role in the discovery, development, manufacturing, and procurement of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics, the federal government has generally not exercised any leverage in ensuring fair pricing and affordable access to these essential medical products. In 1989, the U.S.

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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

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To allocate COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices , the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), and the World Health Organization (WHO) identified ethical goals for prioritization, such as maximizing benefit and minimizing harm, mitigating health inequities, and reciprocity.

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Learning from the ‘COVID War’

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Their COVID War The “ COVID Crisis Group ” is an establishment group of businesspeople and government officials plus some subject matter experts. Some have also served as public health officials and/or professors. They also present good ideas on the “how” side of public health. 209), and the like.

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The Years of Magical Thinking: Pandemic Necrosecurity Under Trump and Biden

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From early moments in 2020, the concept of a right to health — and indeed, even a right to life — has been discounted in American policy, discourse, and practice. In a recent comparison of health system performance in 11 high-income countries, the U.S. rated last , owing in part to our lack of universal coverage provision.

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A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present)

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And though evidence is mounting that the risk of hospitalization and death is lower for each person infected compared to Delta, Omicron’s extremely high transmissibility means that a large fraction of the population will become infected in a short time period, particularly in the absence of additional public health measures.