Pandemic Legal Database
- EXEC
- 23/07/2020
COVID-19 spurred a vast increase in urgent legislative action directed at controlling the disease. However, poor design, implementation or enforcement of legal frameworks can do harm and...
READ MORECOVID-19 spurred a vast increase in urgent legislative action directed at controlling the disease. However, poor design, implementation or enforcement of legal frameworks can do harm and...
READ MOREThe economic fallout from pandemic-related lockdowns has been enormous, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) that struggle to find a balance in terms of protecting life and...
READ MOREEmpirical studies indicate that COVID-19 cases may be most infectious during the presymptomatic phase of the disease, which baffles experts as this is rather 'unusual' in the progression of...
READ MOREThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major disruption to regular healthcare services. As the novel coronavirus is highly contagious, hospitals need to double down on their infection control strat
READ MOREMedical errors must be prevented as much as possible so as not to jeopardise patient safety. In nursing, studies have found that the most common mistakes are made in relation to medication, doc
READ MORECountries in Europe have started easing drastic lockdown measures, implemented in February-March 2020, as the number of COVID-19 cases in their jurisdictions decline. However, relaxation needs...
READ MOREGovernments’ approach to nurturing and implementing innovation and technology ecosystem, in America and globally, has been flawed for several decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the...
READ MOREOne solution to the problem of scarce medications allocation, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, can be the implementation of a centralised lottery system, an article in JAMA...
READ MORENew research from Guangzhou, China has found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pathogen that causes COVID-19, can be transmitted faster within households as
READ MOREHealthcare workers continue risking their lives on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, but many of them do not feel confident that the measures their leaders take can adequately protect...
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