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

Bill of Health

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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A Categorical No to Categorical Accommodation Denials Related to COVID-19?

Bill of Health

Remote accommodations were granted freely during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in 2021, the in-person aspect of teaching and learning was suddenly deemed essential, and at many institutions, remote classes came to an end. The chain of events leading to the reasonable accommodation denial in Oross v.

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Employer Plan Guidance Issued on the End of the COVID-19 Emergency Periods

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7 into law, thereby ending the national state of emergency related to COVID-19 that was declared under the National Emergencies Act. Furthermore, on April 1, 2023 , state governments resumed conducting Medicaid eligibility determinations, a routine process that was halted in the spring of 2020 due to COVID-19.

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How to fight back against public health mis- and disinformation

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One of the lasting lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is the insidious and corrosive power of mis- and disinformation to undermine public health efforts. Fraud and the Gates foundation stand to make billions from a forced COVID vaccine!" But it has been impacting our health behavior for a number of years.

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How the Unpredictable Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Infection Pose a Challenge That Tort Law Cannot Meet

Bill of Health

The longer the pandemic continues, the more obvious it is how effective the sweeping federal and state laws shielding medical providers from malpractice associated with COVID-19 have been. The declared public health emergency will end, and with it the federal and remaining state blanket liability protections.

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Improving the Future of Public Health by Applauding Appropriate Judicial Oversight

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Kapp During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Health Establishment (PHE)/legal enterprise collaborative fell short of constitutional standards in a number of situations, resulting in adverse judicial rulings of which the PHE and its like-minded academic advocates now complain. By Marshall B.

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

Bill of Health

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.

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