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Healthcare/Hospital Law

Dec. 3, 2009

Managing a Healthy Office

Robin Samuel and Jennifer Wagman of Hogan & Hartson tell employers how to protect against the H1N1 pandemic while remaining legally compliant.

By Robin Samuel and Jennifer Wagman

The H1N1 outbreak of 2009 is the fourth pandemic, defined as a global epidemic, the world has seen in the past century. Before H1N1 was the deadly "Spanish Flu" of 1918, followed by the milder "Asian" and "Hong Kong" flus of the 1950s and 1960s.

On April 26, 2009, the acting Secretary of Health and Human Services declared the H1N1 pandemic a "public health emergency" pursuant to Public Health and Safety Act Section 319. The Se...

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