Resources
- Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation COVID-19 Response page (updated regularly)
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Williams and Sánchez: “Systemic racism has had its knee on the neck of the African American community since America began.” (June 5, 2020)
- Boston Globe: Mayor Walsh declares racism a public health crisis in Boston, will seek to transfer 20% of police overtime budget to social services (June 12, 2020)
- JAMA: A Framework for Rationing Ventilators and Critical Care Beds During the COVID-19 Pandemic (March 27, 2020)
- NEJM: Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19 (May 21, 2020)
- Yale Law Journal Forum: Disability Law and the Case for Evidence-Based Triage in a Pandemic (July 7, 2020)
- Yale Law Journal Forum: May Hospitals Withhold Ventilators from COVID-19 Patients with Pre-Existing Disabilities? Notes on the Law and Ethics of Disability-Based Medical Rationing (May 15, 2020)
- JAMA: Digital Smartphone Tracking for COVID-19—Balancing Public Health and Civil Liberties (May 27, 2020)
- STAT: Covid-19 ‘immunity certificates’: practical and ethical conundrums (April 10, 2020)
- JAMA: Risk of Legal Liability for Withdrawing or Withholding Ventilators From COVID-19 Patients (April 1, 2020)
- Healthcare Dive: Why COVID-19’s biggest impact on healthcare may not be until 2022 (July 23, 2020)
- Buzzfeed News: The Coronavirus Cost Of Your July 4th Barbecue (July 4, 2020)
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: When Public Health Means Business (Ongoing online series, 2020)
- ProPublica & NBC News: “It cost me everything”: Hispanic residents bear brunt of COVID-19 in Texas (July 30, 2020)
- Boston Globe: New data on state’s coronavirus cases, deaths show stark racial divide (June 19, 2020)
- NEJM: Covid-19 and Health Equity — Time to Think Big (July 22, 2020)
- SSRN: The Intellectual Property of COVID-19 (Oct 13, 2020)
Live: Wednesday September 16, 2020, 12-1pm
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Blog Posts
Antitrust: A Barrier or Catalyst to the Vaccine Rollout?
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“Stick to the Science”? FDA, Ethics, and Pandemics
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Wait Your Turn: How the Government Can Prevent Individuals from Using Wealth to Cut the Vaccine Line
Since the Food & Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for the COVID-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna in ...
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From 9/11 to COVID-19: A Brief History of FDA Emergency Use Authorization
The ongoing fight against COVID-19 has thrown a spotlight on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its power to ...
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Interview with Glenn Cohen
Now that Pfizer and Moderna have begun distributing their COVID-19 vaccines to hospitals across the U.S., a new question has ...
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COVID-19 and the FDA Emergency Use Authorization Power
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for protecting public health by regulating the production, distribution, and consumption of ...
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Emergency Measures: Free Speech and Online Content Moderation During Coronavirus
A Conversation with HLS Lecturer evelyn douek In the chaos and confusion of the Coronavirus pandemic, few have stopped to ...
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Returns to Public Investment in Drug Discovery: Some Fundamental Questions
Fred Ledley, Ekaterina Cleary, and Matthew Jackson[1] “I am disposed to ask: "Does teaching consist in putting questions?" Indeed, the ...
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Prioritizing Life: the Grim Irony of Capital Punishment in the Time of Coronavirus
As it has transformed almost every aspect of social and economic life in America, the Coronavirus pandemic has forced local ...
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