With more than 1 million cases reported in the United States over the last 7 days and cases rising, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) issued guidance on November 19, 2020 recommending Americans not...more
Summary of Travel Restrictions -
Due to the rising number of cases of COVID-19 throughout the United States, 10 states (Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island and...more
9/16/2020
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On September 14, 2020, United States District Judge William Stickman IV of the Western District of Pennsylvania, a recent appointee of Donald J. Trump, ruled that executive orders issued by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf...more
Key Takeaways:
Although the federal government itself has the authority to promulgate regulations aimed at preventing the spread of communicable diseases, the decision on how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has largely...more
8/19/2020
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Travel Restrictions
A growing number of states, six as of the publication date of this e-alert, along with the Puerto Rico, the Navajo Nation and a significant number of counties and municipalities, have issued mandatory “shelter in place” or...more
U.S. health care providers and the agencies that regulate them and oversee public health concerns are scrambling to ensure pandemic readiness in the face of isolated incidents of novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) exposure in...more
3/5/2020
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