If law enforcement stigmatizes COVID-19, it’ll only help the virus spread more efficiently.
. Disadvantaged communities lack ready access to health care and may have jobs or living quarters that limit their ability to self-isolate or quarantine. They will bear the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic in the first instance and will then be most vulnerable to charges of criminal transmission.first released by the Obama administration in 2010 and updated in 2015 called for states to reexamine the use of criminal law to police potential transmission of HIV.
This article’s analysis of HIV criminal laws draws from my forthcoming chapter, “HIV Law and Policy in the United States: A Tipping Point,” in the Oxford Encyclopedia of LGBT Politics and Policy.Readers like you make our work possible. Help us continue to provide the reporting, commentary and criticism you won’t find anywhere else.
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