Tag: public health
Caught Between Governments: New York’s Response to Shifting Federal Vaccine Guidance
(Source) Federal Retrenchment and State Resistance Recent federal changes to childhood vaccination guidance have produced one of the sharpest modern divergences between national public-health recommendations and state-level regulatory authority. In January 2026, federal health officials dramatically reduced the number of vaccines recommended for routine pediatric use, cutting the schedule from seventeen immunizations to eleven and…
17 Mar 2026
Free From Charge: Revamping the Public Charge Rule
About the Author: Nicole Belenitsky is a second-year student at Cornell Law School. Nicole graduated from the Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College where she studied Political Science as well as Communication Studies with a focus on rhetoric and public advocacy. She is an Online Associate for Cornell Law School’s Journal of Law and Public…
8 Dec 2021
COVID-19 and the Criminal Justice System: How Prisons and Prisoners are Impacted
(Source) “The closest thing I can equate it with is…when you’re locked in a cell in a giant, old, deteriorating jailhouse, is the fear that there will be a fire and no one will come in and unlock your cell. What caught my attention about this virus is that it really feels like…
15 May 2020