COVID-19 Resources: COVID-19 Resources

2024 Symposium issue from the Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

All issues available on the internet.

LawSites Blog 5/4/20

The U.S. director of national intelligence has three months to declassify information on potential links between China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19, after President Joe Biden signed legislation.

Reuters 6/6/23 Biotech firm Promosome LLC sued Moderna, Pfizer, and BioNTech in federal court in San Diego, California, accusing their COVID-19 vaccines of infringing a patent related to messenger RNA technology.

ABC News 8/26/22

Reuters 4/9/24

Fierce Pharma 12/6/22

FDA website, 8/23/22

Kaiser Family Foundation, 3/28/22

EEOC Guidance 3/14/22

HR Dive 5/23/22

1/26/22

EEOC Technical Assistance 11/17/21, updated 7/12/22

Requires some 17 million health care workers to be vaccinated by the same deadline, Jan. 4, 2022 but with no option for weekly testing in lieu of vaccination. The rule covers all employees — clinical and non-clinical — at about 76,000 health care facilities that receive federal funding from Medicare or Medicaid.

Whitehouse.gov 9/10/21

Whitehouse.gov 9/9/21

JD Supra 10/25/21

HHS, Office for Civil Rights and DOJ, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section 7/26/21

US Supreme Court upholds Biden's vaccine mandate for health care workers. 1/13/22

The US Supreme Court said that Missouri, Louisiana, and five social media users had no standing to sue U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy arguing that the government’s efforts to combat anti-vax and election disinformation in conjunction with social media platforms suppressed their freedom of speech and caused them harm.

US Supreme Court issues emergency stay of Biden's workplace vaccine mandate 1/13/22

Wisconsin State Law Library

A collection of articles from the Harris County Law Library 7/29/20

UCLA Law Library Libguide

NBC 4, 3/24/22. Includes emergency rental assistance for child care workers

Franklin County Public Health

CDC

Association of Corporate Counsel curated resources on COVID-19. Good links to worldwide information.

Hastings Center

nbc4 3/12/24

Prohibits schools and universities from treating unvaccinated students differently from vaccinated students. Prohibits requiring vaccinations that don't have full FDA approval. Goes into effect 10/13/21

Gov. DeWine rescinded the public health order and ended the state of emergency for COVD on June 18, 2021

Pew Trusts 7/29/21

Ohio Court of Claims ruled this in a public records request case. 11/14/20

This is the Ohio public health law cited to justify the stay at home orders. SB 22 narrowed the powers of the Ohio Dept of Health.

Was in effect from April 31 - May 20, 2020. Allowed some businesses to reopen, with social distancing in place.

Guidelines for Manufacturing, Distribution & Construction

The Supreme Court of Ohio rejected an effort to invoke a 2011 amendment to the Ohio Constitution to block the state from enacting or enforcing any COVID-19 related measures.