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What If You Go Back to the Office and Get Covid-19?
Any plan for reopening is going to have to resolve some sticky liability issues.
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If America is going to restart its economy, at whatever pace, it needs to think about a major roadblock: liability from Covid-19. If a university or workplace reopens, and some employees or students get sick, should they have the right to sue?
In the absence of clarity on this question, many risk-averse institutions will simply wait, as their lawyers will be reluctant to give them clearance to reopen.