179. Don’t Let a Good Disaster Go to Waste. Guests, Wendy Mariner, Michael Ulrich.

My guests are Wendy Mariner, the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law at Boston University School of Public Health, Professor in the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, Professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy & Management, and Director of the JD-MPH dual degree program at Boston University School of Public Health; Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law; and Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. And, Michael Ulrich is a Professor of Health Law, Ethics, & Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of public health, constitutional law, bioethics, and social justice, with an emphasis on the role of law in the health outcomes of vulnerable and underserved populations. Previously he was a Senior Fellow in Health Law, & Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a bioethicist in the Division of AIDS, at the National Institutes of Health. Our discussion concentrates on two aspects of the covoid-19 pandemic: (1) where the healthcare system is as far as capacity and resources, the impact of new federal legislation and what else is needed and (2) what is the legal valence (if any) of terms such as Shelter in place or Quarantine how we will be calibrating more serious infringements on liberty such as lockdowns and quarantines.