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The Americans with Disabilities Act at 30: A cause for celebration during COVID-19?

  • Written by Joseph J. Fins, The E. William Davis Jr, M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
imagePresident George H.W. Bush signing the American Disabilities Act into law on July 26, 1990. George Bush Presidential Library and Museum/NARA

When President George Herbert Walker Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law on July 26, 1990, we doubt he was thinking about protecting people with disabilities during a pandemic. How...

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