Discussion on COVID-19 Prevention apart of Public Health: Several Judgments of national and international Courts Helps to prepare us for the next Wave of Pandemics (Letter to the Editor)

Abstract

This letter to the editor highlights other than just medical aspects of ongoing pandemics, just before the third/fourth wave of COVID-19, arriving back to the EU, having destroyed several economic and trade structures in China and Korea in recent months. However, we have some advantages in comparison to December 2019. First, (i) testing is widely available, accessible, cheap and more accurate. Second, vaccines are on the market (ii) and 4.5 billion of the whole population are vaccinated, (iii) Third two molecules of antivirals are registered for clinical use and finally (iv) several judications on both sides of the Atlantic may help to protect the global and local Public Health. In this first letter, we have selected some - according to space - important judgments supporting the protection of health care on one side, and minimizing the side effect of pandemics to human rights, economic bills and legal structure of pandemic response.