Legal infrastructure for pandemic response: lessons not learnt in the US
Michelle Mello and colleagues argue that state legal reforms have generally exacerbated rather than improved weaknesses in US emergency powers revealed by covid-19, jeopardizing future responses Covid-19 related mortality in the US was higher than in every western European country.1 Compared with its closest neighbour, Canada, also a federated country with a decentralised health system, the US fared far worse.2 With over 1.1 million dead at the end of 2023,3 leaders and academics have begun a painful postmortem. What went wrong, and what can be done to make authorities in the US better equippe...
Source: bmj.com