Governmental Public Health Powers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stay-at-home Orders, Business Closures, and Travel Restrictions

Governmental Public Health Powers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stay-at-home Orders, Business Closures, and Travel Restrictions

This Viewpoint provides historical and legal context for governmental directives to close schools and businesses, ban public gatherings, impose curfews, issue stay-at-home orders, require quarantines for travelers, and impose travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, urging transparent evide...

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Veröffentlicht in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2020-06, Vol.323 (21), p.2137-2138
Hauptverfasser: Gostin, Lawrence O, Wiley, Lindsay F
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Betacoronavirus
Civil Rights - legislation & jurisprudence
Commerce - legislation & jurisprudence
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Crowding
Economics
Emergencies - epidemiology
Federal Government
General & Internal Medicine
Government Regulation
Humans
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Medicine, General & Internal
Pandemics
Pandemics - prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Public health
Public Health - legislation & jurisprudence
Quarantine - legislation & jurisprudence
SARS-CoV-2
Schools
Schools - legislation & jurisprudence
Science & Technology
Shelter in place
State Government
Travel
Travel - legislation & jurisprudence
United States
Vulnerable Populations - legislation & jurisprudence
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Zusammenfassung:This Viewpoint provides historical and legal context for governmental directives to close schools and businesses, ban public gatherings, impose curfews, issue stay-at-home orders, require quarantines for travelers, and impose travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, urging transparent evidence-based processes to ensure equity and social justice.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2020.5460