America sets the date for the end of the Corona emergency

America sets the date for the end of the Corona emergency

US President Joe Biden's administration plans to end the COVID public health emergency this spring, as the United States moves away from viewing the pandemic as a national crisis and instead manages to treat the virus as a seasonal respiratory disease.

And the White House said, in a statement on Monday, that on May 11, it will end public health instructions and national emergencies that the Trump administration first declared in 2020.

The statement from the Office of Management and Budget expressed the White House's strong opposition to House Republican legislation aimed at immediately ending the state of emergency, according to CNBC.

This comes as “public health” – a group of measures taken by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study diseases and epidemics – and national emergencies have enabled hospitals and other health care providers to respond with greater flexibility when facing surges in patient volume during Covid waves. .

Although the emergency declarations will remain in effect through the spring, the federal response to the pandemic has already been scaled back as funding dries up. Congress failed for several months to pass the White House's request for $22.5 billion in additional funding to tackle Covid.

The health department has promised to give states 60 days notice before ending the state of emergency so that the healthcare system has time to prepare for a return to normal.

The state of public health emergency has been extended every 90 days repeatedly since January 2020 as the virus has evolved into new variants and brought the curve back up several times over the past three years. The Health Ministry extended the state of emergency earlier this month.

The Office of Management and Budget said abruptly ending emergencies in the manner prescribed by Republican legislation would "create widespread chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system."

According to the OMB statement, ending the ads without giving hospitals time to adjust will lead to "disruptions to care and payment delays, and many facilities across the country will experience revenue losses."

The White House also plans to move Covid vaccines to the private market in the near future, though the exact timing is unclear. This means that the cost of the vaccines will be covered by the patients' insurance policies rather than by the federal government.

Both Moderna and Pfizer said they could charge up to $130 per dose of the vaccine, four times what the federal government pays.

Covid has killed more than 2020 million people in the United States since 2021. Deaths have dropped dramatically since the peak of the pandemic during the winter of 4000, but nearly XNUMX people are contracting the virus each week.

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