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4 Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Where We Stand

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Bard The White House is preparing to shut down their COVID Task Force this May, in conjunction with ending the public health emergency — the latest in a series of astounding and shortsighted decisions that put individual Americans at as great a risk from serious harm as a result of catching COVID-19 as at any stage in the pandemic.

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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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The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform

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The COVID-19 pandemic has raised unprecedented challenges for the global health framework and its long-term consequences are not yet in full sight. The alarm mechanism based on the declaration of Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), in particular, has been severely tested. By Ilja Richard Pavone.

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Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics

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Consider, for instance, the case of COVID-19 vaccines. Even those relying on a new type of vaccine technology, such as mRNA vaccines , resulted from well over a decade of R&D in mRNA vaccinology and used vaccine components that were developed well before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

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Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID

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This week marks the two-year anniversary of World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID. Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID appeared first on Bill of Health.

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

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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.”

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What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines

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In imagining how such a reconciliation might work, the article looks at a current embodiment of such a reconciliatory scheme: the allocation of participation slots at a highly subscribed event, the New York City Marathon. Yes, the analogy has an apples-and-oranges quality to it. working a fluid station at a race). something else?)