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COVID-19 Update: CDC Updates Travel Guidelines While New Double Variant Emerges

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By Yvonne Puig (US), Daphne Calderon (US) & Jeff Wurzburg (US) on April 5, 2021

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) has updated its travel guidelines, advising that there is low risk for fully vaccinated individuals to travel domestically.  The CDC further provides that for fully vaccinated individuals COVID-19 testing or…

COVID-19 Update: First COVID-19 vaccine approved in UK

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By Yvonne Puig (US), Daphne Calderon (US) & Jeff Wurzburg (US) on December 2, 2020

On December 2, 2020 the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (“MHRA”) announced approval of Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine.  According to a press release from the U.K. government:

This was done using a regulatory process known

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COVID-19 Update: World Health Organization Warns of Dangerous Phase

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By Yvonne Puig (US), Daphne Calderon (US) & Jeff Wurzburg (US) on June 22, 2020

During a press conference on June 19, 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that “[t]he pandemic is accelerating” and that we are now in a “dangerous phase” where the virus is “spreading fast.”   June 22, 2020…

Arbitrating disputes in the pharmaceutical, life sciences and healthcare sector in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic

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By Martin Valasek (CA), Randy Sutton & Brian R. Daley on June 11, 2020

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A signature feature of the last several months has been the scramble for masks, shields and gowns – personal protective equipment (PPE) – for doctors, nurses and other care workers. Governments have been focused on ensuring that health authorities,…

COVID-19 Update: U.S. and U.K. Issue Joint Alert Regarding COVID-19 Research Cyber Threat

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By Yvonne Puig (US), Daphne Calderon (US) & Jeff Wurzburg (US) on May 6, 2020

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre issued a joint alert on Tuesday that advanced persistent threat groups “are actively targeting organizations involved in both national and international COVID-19…

COVID-19 Update: CDC says Spread of Coronavirus Virus “Inevitable”

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By Yvonne Puig (US), Daphne Calderon (US) & Jeff Wurzburg (US) on February 26, 2020

On Tuesday February 25, 2020, Nancy Messonnier, director of the U.S. Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease warned in a call with reporters that “[u]ltimately we expect we will see community spread in the United…

COVID-19 Update: Death Toll Surpasses 2,000

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By Yvonne Puig (US), Daphne Calderon (US) & Jeff Wurzburg (US) on February 21, 2020

As of Thursday February 20, 2020, there have been more than 75,000 known coronavirus infections and over 2,000 deaths.  According to the Centers for Disease Control, there have been fifteen confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States,…

COVID-19 Update: Over 60,000 Confirmed Cases

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By Yvonne Puig (US), Daphne Calderon (US) & Jeff Wurzburg (US) on February 14, 2020

Earlier this week the WHO announced that COVID-19 would be the name for the disease caused by the coronavirus.  On Wednesday, China announced 14,840 new cases of the coronavirus after changing the way cases are confirmed to include where a …

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U.S. Declares Coronavirus a Public Health Emergency

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By Yvonne Puig (US), Daphne Calderon (US) & Jeff Wurzburg (US) on February 3, 2020

As of Monday February 3, the death toll of the Coronavirus had risen to 362 and there were over 17,300 known cases around the world.  The number of coronavirus deaths in China has now exceeded the severe acute respiratory syndrome…

WHO Deems Coronavirus Global Health Emergency and White House Announces Task Force

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By Yvonne Puig (US), Daphne Calderon (US) & Jeff Wurzburg (US) on January 31, 2020

On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO)  declared the coronavirus a global health emergency.  The coronavirus has now been identified in 18 countries and has infected 9,709 people. 213 people have died from the coronavirus.  Countries are beginning…

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