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Health Law Prof Blog
Worth Reading This Week
Wendy Parmet, Pandemics, Populism and the Role of Law in the H1N1 Vaccine Campaign, SLU JHLP/SSRNBill Sage & David Hyman, Do Health Reform and Malpractice Reform Fit Together? SSRN David Orentlicher,…
Health Law Prof Blog
Wendy E. Parmet: “Pandemics, Populism and the Role of Law in the H1N1 Vaccine Campaign”
Wendy E. Parmet, Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law, posted "Pandemics, Populism and the Role of Law in the H1N1 Vaccine Campaign" on SSRN: The 2009 H1N1…
Health Law Prof Blog
The Swine Flu Remains Active
The CDC Press Briefing from last week reminds Americans that the H1N1/Swine Flu continues to spread. The briefing transript provides, In terms of the numbers of infectionsthat have been…
International Law Prof Blog
WHO Declares H1N1 to be a Pandemic
We've just received this press release from the United Nations on the H1N1 Virus.WORLD FACING GLOBAL A(H1N1) FLU PANDEMIC, ANNOUNCES UN HEALTH AGENCY The A(H1N1) influenza outbreak has officially reached…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
H1N1 Virus Protections
The Swine Flu virus has obviously been in the news. If your Company has not already done so, it may wish to provide the attached information to all employees. Click…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
Reposted: Assessing Community Mitigation Efforts that Should be Implemented – Second Guessing the CDC
Original 4/26 postI admit that there are enormous information asymetries between the CDC and me -- as well as an enormous difference in expertise. I have been worried that CDC…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
WHO raises alert level to Phase 5 – there will be a pandemic.
WHO link to Video of press conferencePress conference video file for direct downloadingThere will be a pandemic -- the question is how severe? Dr. Chan says WHO is now mobilizing…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
Its time to undertake all of the community mitigation efforts: we have a PSI category 4 pandemic at least and WHO is set to declare the pandemic to be stage 5
Even a day makes a difference! WHO is now considering increasing its phase to Phase 5. The US now has a death rate that exceeds 1%, so the Pandemic Severity…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
CDC count at 91; new confirmed cases in Michigan Massachusetts, Arizona, and Nevada; one toddler dies in Texas
Wednesday, April 29th AM updateThe WSJ has a great map -- it appears to be using official CDC and WHO numbers as opposed to state and national numbers, but still…
D.C. Medical Malpractice Blog
Swine Flu Raising More Questions Than Answers While the U.S. Sees Its First Fatality
Posted by Jacqueline Colclough Amid international efforts preparing for a possible pandemic due to growing numbers of confirmed cases of A/H1N1 influenza virus, or swine flu, investigations are raising more…