Bloomberg Law | May 11, 2023
“When the next health crisis hits, in terms of vaccination requirements, I think federal public health officials will have their hands tied,” said Lawrence Gostin, a law professor and director of Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. “The backlash and legal challenges have been so intense that I think businesses and public health authorities will exercise self-censorship—that is, they’ll refrain from mandates out of fear of litigation and backlash.”