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Biden to end covid national emergencies in May - The Washington Post

Biden to end covid national emergencies in May - The Washington Post

Biden to end covid national emergencies in May - The Washington Post
Jan 31, 2023 1 min, 8 secs

Comment on this storyPresident Biden told Congress on Monday that he will end the national emergencies to combat the coronavirus outbreak on May 11, a move that will restructure the federal government’s response to the pandemic nearly three years after the virus first arrived in the United States.

“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 Monday.

“Any decision to end Title 42 is not tied to the PHE,” Christopher Krepich, a spokesman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in a statement referring to the public health emergency.

The pandemic defined much of the first year of Biden’s presidency, as his administration launched the largest vaccine campaign in American history and was forced to adapt to new and highly infectious variants.

For most people with private or public insurance, vaccinations will continue to be free even after the supply purchased by the federal government runs out, under provisions of the Affordable Care Act and other legislation that addressed Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries.

Hospitals and nursing homes that have relied on flexibilities enabled by the emergency declarations would be “plunged into chaos” without adequate time to retrain staff and establish new billing processes.

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