Lawrence Gostin

Lawrence Gostin is a professor of global health law and director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. He is also director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law.

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Why There’s No National Lockdown

Enforcing a large-scale quarantine would be legally murky, even if it’s what the country needs to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
- Lawrence Gostin and Sarah Wetter
- March 31, 2020
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We Can Still Avoid the Worst-Case Scenario

The spread of the coronavirus may be inevitable, but the choices we make now will determine how bad the outbreak will get.
- Lawrence Gostin
- March 5, 2020

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Lawrence Gostin

Why There’s No National Lockdown

We Can Still Avoid the Worst-Case Scenario