Tag Archives: Vaccines

Hope v. Cynicism in Healthcare: Waiving Patent Protections for COVID-19 Vaccines

By: Edgar Cruz April 5, 2022 On February 21, 2022, Dr. Paul Farmer suddenly died of an acute cardiac event. Dr. Farmer was a medical anthropologist who co-founded the Partners in Health (“PIH”) organization in 1987. Through PIH, Dr. Farmer and his teams of local accompagnateurs, expanded access to healthcare in poor and rural communities […]

Travel Restrictions, Vaccine Passports, and Mandates: Is There an International Standard?

Frederick Kushmore III, October 29, 2021 During the Covid-19 Pandemic, countries took various strategies to combat the pandemic. One of the core aspects of this was a ‘lockdown’ where people were to stay at home and travel was restricted around the world. While all nations have public laws, there had not been a major pandemic […]

Adopting Israel’s rigid legally-binding Covid-19 mandates will lead to a global COVID-19

By: Dor Scwartz, October 21, 2021 Since the commencement of the pandemic, Israel has led the international realm, not only in the Middle East but globally in the fight to mitigate the COVID-19 breakouts. Israel was the first country to fully vaccinate a majority of its eligible citizens, leading to 78% of its eligible citizens […]