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3. 14. See, e.g., The Centers for Law and the Public's Health and National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, supra note 1.
4. 10. For example, in advance of emergencies, it could be helpful for local health departments to have some visibility into nearly-final versions of EUAs (sometimes referred to as “pre-EUAs”) to become familiar with their conditions, as well as have access to dosing and crushing instructions for pediatric formulations. During a sudden-onset emergency, because EUAs are not issued until an emergency occurs, a responding public health department in a city with millions of residents would be required to review and interpret the EUAs conditions at the time of the emergency. It may then, under a very compressed timeframe, have to print and distribute a sufficient number of fact sheets for the EUA product for the impacted population. See, e.g., Institute of Medicine and Starr, and Carr, , supra note 8.
5. 23. “New Orleans Hospital Settles Post-Katrina Wrongful Death Lawsuit,” Insurance Journal, January 28, 2010 available at (last visited December 8, 2010); see Barrow, , supra note 22.