Father and son traveling by plane
Father and son traveling by plane

Law’s Sharona Hoffman discusses the challenges of mandating masks and vaccines

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Professor Sharona Hoffman

Akron Beacon Journal: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, discussed the challenges of mandating masks and vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Certainly in August of 2020, (state government) had the power under the public health laws of the state to respond to the pandemic, to issue orders that were designed to safeguard the public and to enforce them through punishment,” said Hoffman. “And that’s what the government did.”