Less than two weeks after the test results came in, the United States declared a national public health emergency. The strain spread rapidly around the world, and panic followed. In June, as cases mounted worldwide, the World Health Organization declared that an influenza pandemic—the first of...
“You have people who die after they have been sprayed,” acknowledged Steven Beazer, president of Utah-based Advanced Defense Technologies, one of about half a dozen major manufacturers of pepper spray devices. “Does pepper spray have a role in some of these deaths? I will say yes. It i...
is that an unconscious person is presumed to need emergency medical help. A bystander is not required to help; people with a legal duty (i.e. you were in a car wreck with them) can incur civil liability by not calling for help; licensed professionals and emergency responders MUST help. A...