On January 20, 2021, Joseph R. Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. Within hours of taking the oath, President Biden signed an executive order entitled Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring
Much has been written to acknowledge the solemn milestone of 2 million deaths worldwide, and 400,000 deaths in the US from COVID-19.
Yesterday marked one year since the first known diagnosis of the coronavirus in the US. We have been
On January 8, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released Advisory Opinion 22-01 entitled On The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act Scope of Preemption Provision. The Advisory Opinion addresses the Fourth Amendment to the Declaration
On Friday, January 8, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released a final rule that would provide HHS with five years to review existing regulations that are more than ten years old, subject to certain exceptions, to
On January 6, 2021 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar renewed the Public Health Emergency declaration, effective January 21, 2021. In a tweet, Secretary Azar announced the renewal and stated that “[o]ur work to
On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the fourth round of COVID-19 emergency relief that passed both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (“Act”) includes approximately $900 billion in pandemic