Is Modern Constitutional Law Making Us Unhealthy?
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This is a review of Wendy E. Parmets new book, Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health. The book does an overall good job of exposing the reader to criticism of modern jurisprudence involving COVID-19. However, this review focuses on the following three areas of critique: comparing red states versus blue states for COVID-19 response outcomes, the inability of science to make public policy pronouncements, and the alleged connection between a healthy democracy and healthy citizens.
