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Publicly available Victorian epidemiological data is currently insufficient. Transparency is critical for ensuring not only public health (enabling experts to review & conduct analyses) but also for accountability & good

Legally, can President Trump withdraw the US from membership of the WHO? – The WHO Constitution is a treaty.– Membership of WHO requires signing the WHO Constitution & completing state domestic ratification

The World Health Assembly has adopted a landmark resolution for the global #Covid19 Response. 137 co-sponsors joined the resolution, championed by Australia, EU & w China joining. Below, I've highlighted

Australia has called for legal amendments to give the @WHO power to investigate outbreaks similar to UN weapons inspectors.1. How would this be done legally? What are the implications? I

In making this Very Bad decision, Gov Kemp stated that local govts cannot impose their own stricter measures. Ceiling preemption is often an issue for public health law and has

It’s time for a Pandemic thread for #COVID19(prompted by questions from the excellent @MackayIM & @onisillos - thank-you) What is a pandemic? Are we in a pandemic?How do pandemic and

The mechanism President Trump proposes to use to rescind funding from WHO is not clear. Here are three possible mechanisms.(Whatever form it takes, this is a deeply shortsighted and dangerous