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On May 11, the government officially ended the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). "We need to get used to it and adjust to our new reality," said one expert. (iStock) ...
When we asked readers if the city should declare a public health and safety emergency, the overwhelming majority of ...
Congress expanded access to public and private health insurance coverage during the emergency, which sharply lowered uninsured rates. Even so, some 30 million people in the US remain uninsured.
An emergency committee of WHO, which is based in Geneva, met early Wednesday to advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on whether the disease outbreak constitutes a "public health ...
The public health emergency for COVID-19 is slated to end on May 11, close to three years after it was first declared by the Trump administration.
The coronavirus public health emergency, declared by the Trump administration in 2020, will expire on Thursday. Interviews with senior health officials suggest the nation is not ready for a new ...
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the agency will pull $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine development ...
Last Friday, the World Health Organization ended the Public Health Emergency of International Concern that it announced three years ago when the virus that causes COVID-19 became a global threat.
Federal continuation of the emergency now likely into April 2023 is wise as the ramifications of withdrawing the public health emergency for Covid-19 emergency could have been very bad. Here’s why.
Since Covid was first declared a public health emergency by Secretary of Health and Human services Alex Azar on January 31, 2020, the designation has been renewed 13 times, typically in 30 day ...
Councilor Ed Flynn filed a resolution to declare Mass. and Cass a public health, safety, and humanitarian crisis. Do you agree?