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Over the past two years, the heterogeneous Querdenker movement against Germany’s coronavirus restrictions has radicalized sharply, involving not only far-right ideologues but also average German citizens who are tired of “peaceful resistance” against pandemic measures.
What insights can be gleaned from the crisis as we prepare for a future increasingly defined by climate destabilization and extreme weather?
Terrorist attacks have declined since the start of the pandemic, but it is unclear what factors have driven this trend and whether it will last.
With this opinion, the court signals its willingness to scrutinize an agency’s statutory authority, even in the face of a plausible, plain reading of the statute that supports the agency’s response to the impact a deadly pandemic is having on people at work.
Israel reinstated contact-tracing activities by the Israel Security Agency to track carriers of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Five days later, it halted the ISA’s contact-tracing activities, due to a lack of parliamentary support.
The governor of Oklahoma recently asserted the right to exempt the National Guard of his state from receiving the coronavirus vaccine, raising unique legal questions in the process.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence intelligence assessment of the origins of coronavirus found that the virus was not developed as a biological weapon.
OSHA is expected to draw on its authority to issue an ETS for a new workplace vaccine mandate. Setting aside the political challenges associated with such a rule, OSHA faces several obstacles to construct an ETS that can withstand the scrutiny it will draw.
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Pre-pandemic precedents provide important—but incomplete—guidance to courts as they grapple with challenges to a rapidly rising wave of coronavirus vaccination mandates.