Health Law and COVID-19

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)
Northern California doctors rework ‘Hamilton’ track to promote vaccines

Live: Wednesday September 16, 2020, 12-1pm

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Blog Posts

WARSAW, POLAND - MARCH 23: Conference participants during the Warsaw Medical Congress For Young Scientists at the Medical University of Warsaw. March 23, 2013 in Warsaw, Poland.

The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 on America’s Young Adults: “College seems like a really far away concept right now.”[1]

Mental Health Repercussions of Virtual Interactions and Quarantine The COVID-19 pandemic has upended nearly every aspect of everyday life, canceling ...
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Questions of Life or Death: America’s Underinsurance Crisis in the Age of COVID-19

With COVID-related lockdowns and pandemic safety precautions now past their first anniversary, there is, at long last, hope on the ...
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Fairview Heights, IL—Jan 5, 2020; Sign on medical clinic announces Planned Parenthood branch is now open, the southern Illinois clinic was built to serve St Louis after Missouri restricted abortions.

Access to Abortion in the Era of COVID-19

Limited Access to Elective Medical Procedures During the COVID-19 Pandemic As the coronavirus ravaged the United States, governors nationwide sprang ...
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Doctor, nurse, scientist, researcher hand in blue gloves holding flu, measles, coronavirus, covid-19 vaccine.

Vaccine hopes collide with vaccine denial

Americans have been able to feel a little more hopeful recently as vaccines begin to roll out across the country ...
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Blurred COVID-19 Vaccination Record card, Passport of USA and Medical Mask. Immune passport or certificate for travel concept.

Vaccine Requirements, Passports, and the “New Normal”

As vaccination programs slowly ramp up across the United States, a burgeoning idea has slowly gained more traction: immunity “passports” ...
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Close up of a Doctor making a vaccination in the shoulder of patient,.

Vaccines are here, but not for everyone

The race to vaccinate the world against Covid-19 is on. Though Americans may be lamenting that they have to wait ...
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Antitrust: A Barrier or Catalyst to the Vaccine Rollout?

In December 2020, health officials administered the first COVID-19 vaccine and President-Elect Biden promised to deliver more than 100 million ...
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“Stick to the Science”? FDA, Ethics, and Pandemics

Throughout the current pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public health experts have called on the government to “stick to ...
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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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Bendigo, Australia - October 28, 2018: emergency department of the new Bendigo Hospital, It was built in 2017 by Silver Thomas Hanley and Bates Smart.

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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