{"id":6797,"date":"2020-05-12T14:29:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T18:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2024-12-10T14:35:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T19:35:24","slug":"bu-law-webinar-could-better-investments-in-public-health-infrastructure-have-prevented-covid-19s-destructive-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2020\/05\/12\/bu-law-webinar-could-better-investments-in-public-health-infrastructure-have-prevented-covid-19s-destructive-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Law webinar: Could better investments in public health infrastructure have prevented COVID-19\u2019s destructive impact?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BU Law webinar: Could better investments in public health infrastructure have prevented COVID-19\u2019s destructive impact?<\/h2>\n<p>Why were healthcare providers so unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic? Could better investments in public health infrastructure have prevented such widespread chaos and sickness? Why can\u2019t our society keep up with quarantine?<\/p>\n<p>Professor Emerita Frances Miller, Professor Kevin Outterson, and Professor Nicole Huberfeld discuss COVID-19 from a health law perspective, examining the grave and widespread policy issues that left the US ill-prepared in the face of COVID-19, and unearthing how can be better prepared to weather the next pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could better investments in public health infrastructure have prevented widespread chaos?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16959,"featured_media":6804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1,390],"tags":[106,355,178,354,356,172,153],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2020\/05\/webinar-bu-law-covid-investments-800x600.jpg","agg_excerpt":"Could better investments in public health infrastructure have prevented widespread chaos?","agg_title":"Law, investments, & the impact of COVID-19","media_icon":"webinar-icon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7482,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/7482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}