“Just last week, we were asking: Why no national lockdown? The answer is that state governors are responsible for the health of their populations,” Polly Price explains to The New York Times about Donald J. Trump's recent comments about #COVID19 & federal power. fal.cn/37yJy

Prof. Polly Price says Trump’s statement that he has total authority to declare states open for business isn’t correct. “Congress could conceivably legislate to override state control of commerce, but not the president by himself.” Dallas Morning News #COVID19 dallasnews.com/news/politics/…

Any federal intervention over the objections of a state “can be highly politically charged,” Prof. Polly Price wrote in a 2018 Emory Law Journal article on state & federal #quarantine powers, recently cited by qu #ELAWScholars #COVID19 fal.cn/37CV1

.@Theatlantic offers historical perspective and global health expertise via #CarnegieFellows Polly Price, who argues that during the 1918 influenza crisis, public officials confronted challenges similar to those faced by America today. carnegie.io/3b810dP

We are Back to Making Our Own Masks plaguesinthenation.com/we-are-back-to…

The resistance of many Americans to masks and social distancing during #COVID19 mirrors what happened during the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak, Emory Law's Polly Price tells BBC News (UK) #COVID19US bbc.com/news/world-us-…

We literally left them a 69-page Pandemic Playbook.... that they ignored And an office called the Pandemic Preparedness Office... that they abolished. And a global monitoring system called PREDICT .. that they cut by 75%

Andrew Carnegie Fellow Polly J. Price on How Governments Can Confront Pandemics like COVID-19 | Carnegie Corporation of New York carnegie.org/news/articles/… outstanding profile of the brilliant Polly Price, author of forthcoming book from Beacon Press

Professor and Andrew Carnegie Fellow Polly Price talks about her interest in pandemics, how her Andrew Carnegie fellowship advanced her research, and some considerations for the future: fal.cn/382H1 #ELAWScholars #COVID19

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"State or local face-covering requirements rely on the current medical consensus that not wearing a face covering or mask may endanger others." #COVID19 Face-Covering Requirements and the Constitution, by Emory Law's Polly Price and Patrick C. Diaz: bit.ly/2VuGEGW

Thank you Becca Rosen & Yoni Appelbaum for a great National Constitution Center The Atlantic Battle for the Constitution symposium, and thanks to our stellar panelists Tracey Meares, Chief Charles Ramsey, John Inazu, Deborah Pearlstein, Polly Price & @adamjwhitedc!

Interstate Travel, Interstate Virus plaguesinthenation.com/interstate-tra… Sharing some thoughts on new quarantine requirements after interstate travel. Is it really the case that Pennsylvania is less concerned about a traveler returning from a trip to Brazil than one coming from Arkansas?

The Governor of Georgia does not have authority to override local face mask requirements. Do the right thing. #Covid_19 #GovKemp plaguesinthenation.com/face-covering-…

Brian Kemp do the right thing and protect your Georgian citizens. Atlanta's Keisha Lance Bottoms, Athen's Kelly Girtz Athens-Clarke County, Savannah's Mayor Van Johnson, and many other local municipalities should challenge #GovKemp's attempt to prevent face covering mandates while cases bloom.

We are largely beyond the legal question whether an elected official can order #facemasks to be worn in indoor spaces. Polly Price explains that generally applicable face-covering requirements do not violate anyone's constitutional rights. buff.ly/395PUqn

The Unlucky Timing of an Election-... beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2020… Instead of responding like a wealthy nation with enormous reserves of scientific expertise, the US responds as if we were fifty different, relatively poor nations with inadequate access to basic medical supplies.

“Congress never intended that the federal government should sit on its hands during a pandemic crisis while delegating all critical response functions to state and local governments.”

Congratulations Polly Price on this ⭐️review! Nonfiction Book Review: Plagues in the Nation: publishersweekly.com/978-0-8070-434… via @publisherswkly "Gripping prose & lucid analysis make this an essential study of what needs to change before the next epidemic." Beacon Press Dystel, Goderich & Bourret

Happy #BookBDay, Polly Price! 🎇 PLAGUES IN THE NATION, a narrative history of how our country learned—and failed to learn—to respond to epidemics, is “an essential study of what needs to change before the next epidemic.”—Publishers Weekly, ⭐️ Review buff.ly/3w0tvbf