A shot in the arm Nada Sanders, a professor of supply-chain management at Northeastern University, says the availability of a vaccine will not lead immediately to vaccinations, because so much else needs to be organised.
CDC survey finds people are warming up to the idea of coronavirus shots, but many remain reluctant The survey was conducted by The COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States, which is a joint project of Northeastern University, Harvard University, Rutgers University, and Northwestern University.
Column: While we line up for a fourth shot, the world’s poor haven’t gotten their first “People in the U.S. have no greater right to health than people elsewhere in the world,” says Brook K. Baker, a Northeastern University Law School professor who specializes in access to medicines. “We’re all human. Health is a positive good for everyone. Yet we’re living under a monopoly-based system where giant pharmaceutical corporations make billions […]
Pandemic Precedents Cast Shadow on Biden Shot-or-Test Rule “This court has been very skeptical, if not hostile, to pandemic-mitigation measures, in quite marked distinction from its sister circuits,” said Wendy Parmet, a law professor who directs Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. “It’s striking that it started very early, before the political polarization around the pandemic had gotten as hardened as it […]
A Quirky Ping-Pong Ball Lottery Just Dealt a Blow to Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Joe Biden Gets His Booster Shot 0 seconds of 3 minutes, 17 secondsVolume 0% Loading ad Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor who focuses on public health law, noted that OSHA issued regulations around how companies should handle HIV, also a communicable disease. “We don’t have anything quite comparable. We have not had a pandemic of this kind of severity since OSHA has been created, but it did respond to […]
Scientific American Will Giving COVID Booster Shots Make It Harder to Vaccinate the Rest of the World? But one billion doses would be nowhere near enough to achieve the WHO’s goal of vaccinating 70 percent of the world by June 2022—and this is where widespread booster campaigns could become a problem. “I understand why a politician would like to say, ‘I want to do both’” booster campaigns and donations, says health law expert […]
Forbes Pelosi Says FDA Approval Of Pfizer Shot May Prompt Vaccine Mandate For Lawmakers Wendy Parmet, a professor of health policy law at Northeastern University, told Forbes that while Congress has “different” legal parameters than other workplaces, the legal case for vaccine mandates is already “pretty strong.”
Forbes Pelosi Says FDA Approval Of Pfizer Shot May Prompt Vaccine Mandate For Lawmakers Wendy Parmet, a professor of health policy law at Northeastern University, told Forbes that while Congress has “different” legal parameters than other workplaces, the legal case for vaccine mandates is already “pretty strong.”
James T. Hodgkinson showed all the signs before he shot Rep. Steve Scalise Despite the uniqueness of the location and individuals injured, there is much about the ballfield shooting that is absolutely textbook. Most obvious is the lack of randomness. Mass shootings, with or without fatalities, are rarely indiscriminate in terms of victim selection. Although the assailant, identified as 66-year-old James Hodgkinson of Belleville, IL, wasn’t gunning for […]
Hidden harm: US healthcare emits more greenhouse gas than entire UK Their new study, published in PLoS ONE, estimates that damage from pollutants connected to healthcare leads to an annual loss of 405,000 to 470,000 years of healthy life, or so-called disability-adjusted life years. The loss equates to roughly the same number of Americans as die every year from preventable medical errors: 44,000 to 98,000, the […]
Woman shot by husband finally returns home The family has accepted help from Margaret B. Drew, a visiting law professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a national expert in domestic violence, who believes Waters should have received court protection. “Alisha’s injuries could have been prevented with proper implementation of the existing DVO statute,” Drew said. “The misinterpretation of civil protection […]
The Providence Journal Tuesday is 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s first shot Southern slave-holding states had already seceded from the Union when mortar fire broke the predawn silence over tiny Fort Sumter, in Charleston, S.C., 150 years ago Tuesday. Confederates were bombarding the last U.S. Army forces left in the Charleston area. The Civil War had begun.