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Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic challenges a workable American federalism. The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reserves plenary responsibilities to states for promoting health and well-being; but states and their local governments suffer from a significant lack of resources and interjurisdictional competition during major emergencies.
U.S. federal government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of a series on the. COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 (disease) SARS-CoV-2 (virus) Cases. Deaths. Timeline. Locations. International response. Medical response. Variants.
- Federalism Tested
- Case Study: Vaccination
- Transition from Trump to Biden: Clues as to What May Come
Federalism recognizes that there is a role for both the states and the federal government in policy making. Many scholars have focused on the strain that COVID-19 has placed on the American federalist framework. As the Brookings Institute reported, “The traditional story of federalism recognizes that the national government can make policy in some ...
One specific area where federalism concerns have been paramount is in the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. President Trump’s approach is well summarized in his December 30th tweet: “The Federal Government has distributed the vaccines to the states. Now it is up to the states to administer. Get moving!” The federal government’s vaccine distribu...
President Biden’s coronavirus response has been and is expected to remain starkly different than that of President Trump. President Biden centered coronavirus as a critical issue that his administration plans to tackle early on; it is almost certain that the federal government will play a much larger and more dominant role in his administration’s r...
In the United States, the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in 103,436,829 confirmed cases with 1,186,533 all-time deaths, the most of any country, and the 20th highest per capita worldwide.
- United States
- Wuhan, Hubei, China
Apr 6, 2020 · The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed major weaknesses in the federalist system of public health governance, which divides powers among the federal, state and local governments, argues SHP’s Michelle Mello in this New England Journal of Medicine commentary.
Jun 8, 2020 · The COVID-19 pandemic brought increasing attention to our federalist form of government. The traditional story of federalism recognizes that the national government can make policy in some...
One federalism topic includes the measures available to the federal government in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic, and the promotion of public health. See also. Anti-Federalists; Federalism; Laboratories of democracy; Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Federalist Society; Notes
