Posted on 11/11/2022 2:36:12 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The United States will keep in place the public health emergency status of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing millions of Americans to still get free tests, vaccines and treatments until at least April of next year, two Biden administration officials said on Friday.
The possibility of a winter surge in COVID cases and the need for more time to transition out of the public health emergency to a private market were two factors that contributed to the decision not to end the emergency status in January, one of the officials said.
The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic began, and has been renewed each quarter since. But the government in August began signaling it planned to let it expire in January.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has promised to give states 60 days notice before letting the emergency expire, which would have been on Friday if it did not plan on renewing it again in January.
Health experts believe that the country will see a COVID-19 surge this winter, one official said.
"We may be in the middle of one in January," he said. "That is not the moment you want to pull down the public health emergency."
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Completely ridiculous.
The flu is worse than covid right now. Why no flu emergency?
This is being used to justify tyranny.
Spend money. Buy votes.
I’ve seen this play out once before, in the 1940’s
My apologies to the proponents of the great rest...NOT!
“Great reset”
Do I still get a free two-week vacation every time I get COVID? No? What kind of emergency is this?!?! ;)
RSV is even worse than the flu now. And there is no vaccine
The can’t let go of the communist power they have claimed for themselves.
Health experts believe that..
We may be in the middle of one in January,..
Yep, this sounds like irrefutable science. With all this "certainty," it's no wonder that
these tyrant's will keep their emergency powers extant, so as to allow Slow Joe the opportunity to rule by fiat executive order.
It’s like a bad illicit drug addiction...they just can’t let it go.
Yay! we still get free vax and covid tests!!! /s
Not to mention government tyrants can continue being, well... tyrants.
They’re really in a box -
they had intended to scare 99% of the world into taking the vaccines, and now they are stuck with millions, maybe billions, who haven’t bee vaxxed and can handle “covid” better than the vaxxed.
We now have a control group to point to.
Every pol should be screaming about this.
The Biden regime has to keep the Covid facade going, as they have various court cases in process based on using the Covid health emergency as a basis for his constitutionally illegal actions and thus must keep it in place. Biden’s student loan mandate is based on his having done so because of the Covid emergency; you know, the one that he declared was over a couple of months ago.
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