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Poor Transparency and Corruption in Disease Reporting Could Precipitate the Next Pandemic

Bill of Health

Making these data public ensures that government officials can understand the nature of the public health threat, assess the risk, gather the necessary resources, and prepare an effective plan to contain it. Delayed reporting from Guinea, and then Liberia and Sierra Leone, enabled the spread of Ebola across West Africa in 2014.

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Dealing with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Non-Decision on Standards Compliance Evidence

Drug & Device Law

That is significant because, unlike (now) every other state in the country, since 1987 Pennsylvania precedent prohibited defendants from introducing evidence of their compliance with government and/or industry standards (“standards compliance” or “compliance” evidence, for short) in strict liability design defect cases – generally.