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cord-259905-msefg1ww	DA SILVA, MICHAEL	COVID-19 and Health-Related Authority Allocation Puzzles	2020-06-08		.txt	text/plain	6158	336	49	Several recent COVID-19-related controversies independently raise unique concerns but jointly highlight the need to reflect on a more basic question: How can and/or should authority, and thus responsibility, over healthcare and public health law and policy be allocated within (and possibly across) countries? Although the controversies take different forms across the globe, the underlying issues are perfectly general, arising in "federal" countries, like the United States and Canada, and more "centralized" ones, like France and Israel, where all formal powers rest with a single level of government but administrative authority rests with more "local" actors who often have broad discretion to act without close oversight. Some view North American federal governments' particular failures to secure adequate resources prior to the pandemic reaching the continent as favoring North American countries' "decentralized" approach to healthcare and public health law and policy, but distribution of the goods those countries do possess is unequal across their constituent units (states/provinces) and inefficient in the sense of ensuring PPE are where they are most needed.	./cache/cord-259905-msefg1ww.txt	./txt/cord-259905-msefg1ww.txt