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Record W2312399668 · doi:10.2202/2154-3186.1002

Quarantine Powers, Biodefense, and Andrew Speaker

2011· article· en· W2312399668 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Brad Kvinta

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Biosecurity Biosafety and Biodefense Law · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicBiotechnology and Related Fields
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuarantineTuberculosisPublicityMedicinePolitical scienceFamily medicinePsychologyLaw

Abstract

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In January 2007, “Andrew Speaker (“Speaker”) underwent a chest X-ray and CT scan, which revealed an abnormality in his lungs.” However, tests results indicated that he did not have tuberculosis (“TB”). In March 2007, Fulton County officials informed Andrew Speaker that he was diagnosed with a form of non-infectious form of tuberculosis. He was prescribed a regimen of “first-line anti-TB drugs.” Fulton County officials confirmed the positive TB result, and further tests were ordered. These tests indicated that Speaker had MDR-TB. Fulton County officials told Speaker not to travel abroad for his upcoming wedding in Europe; however, he ignored them. Unbeknownst to any health official, Speaker departed Atlanta for Europe on May 12, 2007. Two weeks later, the Center for Disease Control (“CDC”) informed him that his diagnosis had changed and that he had a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis named XDR-TB. Speaker was in Rome at the time. CDC officials directed him to turn himself into Italian authorities for isolation and asked that he not return home on commercial airlines. Speaker was even placed on a no fly list by the CDC. Again, Speaker ignored CDC officials and returned to the United States via Canada. From Prague, Speaker flew back to Montreal on two commercial aircrafts, and on May 25, 2007, Speaker entered the United States from Canada by car. “Despite being aware of the border alert, the border guard allowed Speaker into the United States.” Once in the United States, CDC officials served Speaker with an isolation order and hospitalized him at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. CDC officials placed him in a secure part of the hospital, where he underwent a medical evaluation to determine the status of his TB. Speaker was then allowed to return to Atlanta, where he faced intense media scrutiny. He then was transferred to the National Jewish Medical Center in Denver for further treatment of his XDR-TB. Eventually, however, officials downgraded his diagnosis to MDR-TB as they had originally. Speaker had surgery to remove the lung infected with MDR-TB at the end of July, and he was declared non-contagious.Clearly, Speaker sparked significant interest in public health on both the national and international levels. Speaker’s initial disregard for United States authority created an opportunity for criticism of local, state, and federal public health laws, while Speaker’s subsequent disregard of authorities while abroad allowed for questioning of international public health law and in particular, the effectiveness of the International Health Regulations. This overview explains certain areas of national and international public health law, and Speaker’s impact on these areas.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesResearch integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.815
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.202 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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