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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

Carceral health care occurs within a regulatory vacuum. There are no national mandatory standards governing health care access or delivery behind bars. Some states have adopted minimum standards for prisons, jails, or both, but in Louisiana , the standards governing health care in jails have not been updated since 1980.

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The Pathology (and Politics) of Liability Shields

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First, nursing homes and assisted living facilities are seeing large numbers of suits , particularly for failures in infection control. Other increasingly viable employee lawsuits are ADA disability discrimination or Title VII claims , possibly bolstered by federal government guidance from the U.S. Shield Propagation.

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The Pandemic Prison

Bill of Health

The pandemic prison has utilized several of the worst features of incarceration as a foundational part of how the institution governspublic health” for its captives. Abolitionists and other critics of mass incarceration joined incarcerated people in proclaiming that prison ran counter to public health.

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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. Many, like their director, Philip Zelikow, have held high government positions and been lawyers, CEOs, or higher-managers for business. 209), and the like.

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Thammasat University Hospital taps NEC Thailand to digitise elderly care

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THE LARGER TREND NEC Thailand has been helping local governments brace for the impact of an ageing population. Last year, the company launched a proof of concept trial of NEC's Japan-borne digital elderly care system called Mimamori in a nursing home in Chiang Mai.

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NEC expands digital elderly care system trial to Chiang Mai

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NEC Thailand is helping the local government to brace for the impact of an ageing population, particularly the increase in healthcare demand, by digitising care delivery for the elderly. It first tried out the Mimamori (meaning "to watch over and protect" in Japanese) system with a nursing home in Chiang Mai last year.

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COVID-19: Vaccine mandate enforced in Austria

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In return, the Austrian government loosened public restrictions. Germany has introduced compulsory COVID-19 vaccination limited to all employees in hospitals, nursing homes, facilities for the disabled, emergency services, medical surgeries and maternity facilities which must be applied by mid March. WHY IT MATTERS.