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Mar 11, 2024 · The WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Four years later, in 2024, is COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 still a pandemic?
- Why Is The Public Health Emergency Ending Now?
- How Will This Affect Covid-19 Testing?
- How Will It Impact Covid-19 Vaccines and Treatments?
- Does This Have Any Impact on Vaccine Mandates?
- What Effect Does This Have on Medicaid Enrollment?
- What Other Changes Are Happening?
- How Will This Change Covid-19 Data Collection?
The U.S. federal government has the authority to declare various types of emergencies, which allows flexibilityto deviate from standard procedures in order to best protect the public. The public health emergency began in January 2020 and was renewed every 90 days after that by the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Following ...
Costs of COVID-19 testing for individuals will rise, which KFF calledthe “widest ranging impact” directly resulting from the end of the public health emergency. People on Medicaid will stillbe ableto get free at-home or health care provider-ordered tests through September 2024, before potentially facing costs. However, the requirement that insure...
The end of the public health emergency will not immediately change the availability and costs of COVID-19 vaccines or oral antiviral treatments. This is because the public health emergency constituted just one of multiple layersof laws and policies that make vaccines and some treatments free. Currently, COVID-19 vaccines and oral antiviral drugs, s...
The Biden administration has announced it will lift most federal vaccine mandates. These mandates are winding down around the same time as the public health emergency but were endedby a separate action. Vaccine requirements for certain noncitizens arriving in the U.S. by air or land will end May 11. Mandates for health care workers at facilities th...
Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act in March 2020, providing additional funding for states during the public health emergency to keep people continuously enrolled in Medicaid regardless of eligibility. This past December, Congress passed the fiscal year 2023 appropriations bill — which allowedstates to start removing people ...
Some nutrition benefits that were expanded during the pandemic will also change, Harvard public policy expert Bleich and her colleagues recently wrotein JAMA Health Forum. Some changes, such as the end of temporary Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for certain college students in June, will be triggered directlyby the end of the pu...
COVID-19 data, including case and death counts, have already become less timely and reliable. The end of the public health emergency could further complicate pandemic data collection. Many jurisdictions will no longer report COVID-19 cases and deaths to the CDC, and HHS will be unable to requirethat laboratories report COVID-19 testing results, inc...
May 24, 2023 · No, the COVID-19 Pandemic Isn’t Over. Ending the U.S. public health emergency declaration doesn’t mean COVID-19 is gone. If you’ve been watching the news recently, you may have seen that May 11, 2023, was an important day.
Feb 2, 2022 · 8:43 p.m. ET, February 1, 2022. Now is the time for White House to release guidance on transitioning out of the pandemic, expert says. From CNN's Jacqueline Howard.
May 12, 2023 · May 12, 2023, at 5:44 a.m. Spencer Platt | Getty Images. A man carries a mask on May 11, 2023, in New York City. The coronavirus is no longer in its emergency phase. But does that mean it's no...
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Sep 20, 2022 · In a surprise moment in a “60 Minutes” interview, President Joe Biden said the COVID-19 pandemic “is over.” While he correctly acknowledged that the coronavirus was still a problem,...
Oct 26, 2022 · It seems like a long time since the pandemic began. And now, as so much of life looks like it did before the pandemic, it's reasonable to wonder: is it over? It sure seems like it — even the president said so in September, and COVID precautions are barely seen in some locales.
