The Emergency is Over?
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/politics/may-11-end-of-covid-and-public-health-emergencies/index.html
A nice summary of changes to public policies that will come as the public health emergency ends, including things like "Title 42" that's also authorized under public health emergency.
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There was a cleverly-titled Advisory Opinions podcast called “Everybody wants a little more pandemic”, discussing how both Dems and Reps were in court trying to extend special pandemic-era policies. Title 42 in the case of the GOP, vaccine mandates in the case of the Biden administration.
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The emergency is declared over on May 11.
U.S. Plans to End Public Health Emergency for Covid in May
The Biden administration plans to let the coronavirus public health emergency expire in May, the White House said on Monday, a sign that federal officials believe the pandemic has moved into a new, less dire phase.
The move carries both symbolic weight and real-world consequences. Millions of Americans have received free Covid tests, treatments and vaccines during the pandemic, and not all of that will continue to be free once the emergency is over. The White House wants to keep the emergency in place for several more months so hospitals, health care providers and health officials can prepare for a host of changes when it ends, officials said.
An average of more than 500 people in the United States are still dying from Covid-19 each day, about twice the number of deaths per day during a bad flu season. But at the three-year mark, the coronavirus is no longer upending everyday life to the extent it once did, partly because much of the population has at least some protection against the virus from vaccinations and prior infections.
Still, the White House said on Monday that the nation needed an orderly transition out of the public health emergency. The administration said it also intended to allow a separate declaration of a national emergency to expire on the same day, May 11.
“An abrupt end to the emergency declarations would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system — for states, for hospitals and doctors’ offices, and, most importantly, for tens of millions of Americans,” the White House said in a statement.
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A phased approach is best. Just a sudden an immediate end would be chaos.
But this adds another nail to the HEROES/Student Loan Argument currently before the Supreme Court.
