How Did Public Health Become a Public Enemy at the Supreme Court?

MedPage Today October 9, 2024
Jeremy Faust, Emily Hutto

— Conservative majority is “buying into” anti-science attitudes, warns Lawrence Gostin, JD

In this Instagram Live clip, MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, and Lawrence Gostin, JD, director of the O’Neill Institute at Georgetown University in Washington, discuss how the Supreme Court has limited the powers of public health and what that could mean for the next pandemic.

The following is a transcript of their remarks:

Faust: Let’s start with COVID, and we’ll keep it on the shorter side and then we’ll get into the other stuff, because I spend a lot of my time worrying about next time and what we’re going to do, and I think the legal landscape has changed. If there were another pandemic tomorrow and...

Today's Sponsors

Today's Sponsor