A Year Into Covid, States Debate Public Health Shutdown Powers

Public health has, to some extent, become “yet another of America’s endless political battlegrounds,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells Undark. “We fight, politically, everything from Dr. Seuss to Covid. What has happened is that in many states, as a result of this, legislatures are rushing to consider and enact measures to reduce the governor’s authority.”