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Epidemiology
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Health Law Prof Blog
Modelling Pandemic
Fleur Johns (University of New South Wales), Modelling Pandemic, Didier Fassin & Marion Fourcade (eds), Economy & Society in the Time of Covid-19 (Forthcoming):Axiomatic, everywhere, to experiences of the COVID-19…
The Right Coast
Here comes the California variant
The New York Times and LA Times have scary and scarier write-ups of new research on B.1.427, a.k.a. the California variant of coronavirus, which popped up sometime in mid-2020 and…
China Law Insight
从生物安全角度简评《动物防疫法》修订亮点
By King & Wood
近年来，世界各地新发频发传染病，据有关调查，约有70%来源于动物，这使得动物防疫变得前所未有的重要。《生物安全法》第三十二条规定，国家保护野生动物，加强动物防疫，防止动物源性传染病传播，并且“防控动植物疫情”被列为《生物安全法》适用范围“八大方面”的首位。作为规制动物防疫活动的专门法律，现行《动物防疫法》（以下简称“旧法”）是2007年修订、2008年1月1日起实施的[1]。鉴于实施中存在的一些问题[2]，且受到新冠疫情推动，修订后的《动物防疫法》于2021年1月22日表决通过，并即将于2021年5月1日正式实施。本文将从生物安全视角，针对新修订的《动物防疫法》（以下简称“新法”）中与生物安全相关的规定进行简要评析，供相关企业参考。
The Right Coast
The pandemic is history – American Thinker
A curious but fortunate characteristic of virus epidemics is their limited life spans. No one knows why, but guesses include herd immunity and mutations of the virus.The following graph from the…
Focus on Regulation
Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines – COVID-19 D.C. Update – July 15, 2020
Your guide to the latest Hill developments, news narratives, and media headlines provided by the Hogan Lovells Government Relations and Public Affairs team. In Washington: The White House denies that it…
The Right Coast
How the World Missed Covid-19 s Silent Spread – The New York Times
The two-month delay was a product of faulty scientific assumptions, academic rivalries and, perhaps most important, a reluctance to accept that containing the virus would take drastic measures. The resistance…
The Right Coast
Initial COVID-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported | Penn State University
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Many epidemiologists believe that the initial COVID-19 infection rate was undercounted due to testing issues, asymptomatic and alternatively symptomatic individuals, and a failure to identify early…
Bill Madden's Blog
Whether order should be made for genetic testing + use of epidemiological evidence.
By Bill Madden
Pederson v Northern NSW Local Health District [2020] NSWSC 741 (available on Caselaw) saw an application by the defendant for an order under r 23.4 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005…
The Right Coast
Coronavirus super-spreader events reveal which gatherings to avoid – Business Insider
So far, coronavirus super-spreader events have shared a few key characteristics: They've mostly involved indoor gatherings in which lots of people from different households were in close, extended contact, such…
Simple Justice
Smart People Stopping Trollies
Richard Epstein taught at the University of Chicago for 38 years before retiring, then promptly came out of retirement to take a chair at NYU Law, while being a Fellow…