The “Criminal Shield”: Criminal Liability for Healthcare Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Sars-CoV-2 pandemic has had important economic, health, political, and jurisprudential implications all over the world. According to innovations already introduced by Law 24/2017, with Decree Law no. 44 of 1 April 2021 and the subsequent conversion law no. 71 of 2021, Italy is the only country i...

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Autores principales: Bolino, Giorgio, D’Antonio, Gianpiero, Sorace, Letizia, Fazio, Nicola Di, Volonnino, Gianpietro, Russa, Raffaele La, Arcangeli, Mauro, Frati, Paola
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10572230/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37830698
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11192661
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author Bolino, Giorgio
D’Antonio, Gianpiero
Sorace, Letizia
Fazio, Nicola Di
Volonnino, Gianpietro
Russa, Raffaele La
Arcangeli, Mauro
Frati, Paola
author_facet Bolino, Giorgio
D’Antonio, Gianpiero
Sorace, Letizia
Fazio, Nicola Di
Volonnino, Gianpietro
Russa, Raffaele La
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Frati, Paola
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description The Sars-CoV-2 pandemic has had important economic, health, political, and jurisprudential implications all over the world. According to innovations already introduced by Law 24/2017, with Decree Law no. 44 of 1 April 2021 and the subsequent conversion law no. 71 of 2021, Italy is the only country in which ad hoc rules have been introduced to limit the professional liability of healthcare professionals during the health emergency. The “criminal shield” can be defined as the Legislator response to the extreme pressure on healthcare professionals during the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-105722302023-10-14 The “Criminal Shield”: Criminal Liability for Healthcare Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic Bolino, Giorgio D’Antonio, Gianpiero Sorace, Letizia Fazio, Nicola Di Volonnino, Gianpietro Russa, Raffaele La Arcangeli, Mauro Frati, Paola Healthcare (Basel) Commentary The Sars-CoV-2 pandemic has had important economic, health, political, and jurisprudential implications all over the world. According to innovations already introduced by Law 24/2017, with Decree Law no. 44 of 1 April 2021 and the subsequent conversion law no. 71 of 2021, Italy is the only country in which ad hoc rules have been introduced to limit the professional liability of healthcare professionals during the health emergency. The “criminal shield” can be defined as the Legislator response to the extreme pressure on healthcare professionals during the pandemic. MDPI 2023-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10572230/ /pubmed/37830698 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11192661 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Volonnino, Gianpietro
Russa, Raffaele La
Arcangeli, Mauro
Frati, Paola
The “Criminal Shield”: Criminal Liability for Healthcare Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic
title The “Criminal Shield”: Criminal Liability for Healthcare Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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title_sort “criminal shield”: criminal liability for healthcare professionals during the covid-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10572230/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37830698
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11192661
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