COVID-19 and the Duty to Protect from Communicable Diseases

J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2020 Jun;48(2):155-160. doi: 10.29158/JAAPL.200012-20. Epub 2020 May 8.
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Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Legal Case

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus*
  • COVID-19
  • Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / ethics
  • Communicable Disease Control*
  • Confidentiality / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
  • Coronavirus Infections / transmission
  • Duty to Warn / ethics
  • Duty to Warn / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Humans
  • Mandatory Reporting
  • Pandemics / prevention & control*
  • Patient Isolation
  • Physician's Role*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
  • Psychiatry
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • United States