Laws and social policies not only shape health in a given society, but also go a long way in determining which populations and communities have relative health gains/losses.  The absence of critically needed public health laws or a “public health law vacuum,” has, and continues to have, devastating consequences in the COVID-19 pandemic.  Daniel Goldberg, JD, PhD illustrates how the federal government could have done and still could do to regulate in the name of public health emergency response (and preparedness for the future).  Read article>>