Kathleen Sabo speaks with former NM state government attorney, Clifford Rees, about the creation and application of NM's Public Health Emergency Response Act (PHERA), under which we are operating for the first time following its drafting and enactment in 2002-2003, and the ethical considerations in play, then and now.

Resources:

NM Public Health Emergency Response Act 

Book Recommendations:

I. Non-Fiction

1) The Great Influenza - John M. Barry (2004, updated with a new Afterword in 2018)

2) Quarantine! - Howard Markel

3) Heat Wave - Eric Klinenberg

4) Typhoid Mary - Judith Walzer Leavitt

II. Fiction

1) Pale Horse, Pale Rider - Katherine Anne Porter

2) Blindness - Jose Saramago

3) The Plague - Albert Camus