According to President Joe Biden‘s administration, the coronavirus pandemic public health emergency will continue until April 2023 in the United States.
With renewals occurring every 90 days, the most recent extension would be the 12th since January 2020, when officials first declared a public health emergency.
Public health officials allegedly anticipate a winter spike in coronavirus cases as people meet indoors more frequently. This is why they decided to extend the emergency. According to CNBC, authorities are also worried about the proliferation of omicron sub-variants.
“Covid is not over. The pandemic is not over,” a senior Biden official said. “It doesn’t make sense to lift this [declaration] given what we’re seeing on the ground in terms of cases.”
No, it is over. The COVID pandemic ended when the omicron variant emerged. You can’t keep a pandemic alive because you’re worried about sub-variants. That’s ludicrous. You would then keep the pandemic alive forever. But that does make sense because there is another election every two years in the United states. The Democrats love the COVID pandemic because it gives them the opportunity to use mail in ballots.
The declaration gives the US the authority to approve urgent requests for prescription medications, vaccines, and other medical countermeasures, all designed to win elections for Democrats. I would love to know where in the constitution it gives the federal government the right to do any of this.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELAccording to Beckers Hospital Review:
“The extension also comes amid uncertainty around public health as winter looms. New Omicron strains — dubbed ‘escape variants’ for their immune evasiveness — have become the dominant strains in the U.S., accounting for 40 percent of all cases in the week ending Nov. 12.
Daily cases in the country are expected to grow 39 percent from Nov. 3-17. Hospital admissions trends are expected to remain stable or be more uncertain, with 1,300 to 7,300 new admissions likely reported on Nov. 25, according to the CDC. As of Nov. 4, the nation’s seven-day average of new hospital admissions was 3,273.”
Prior to lifting the emergency declaration, Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra promised to give 60 days’ notice to healthcare providers.
Previously, the public health emergency was scheduled to end on January 11, leaving November 11 as the last day to give 60 days’ notice. On Friday, HHS officials did not issue such a notice.
CNBC reported:
“The U.S. is extending the Covid public health emergency through the spring of 2023, a Biden administration official said on Friday.
The decision to extend emergency comes as public health officials are expecting another Covid surge this winter as people gather more indoors where the virus spreads easier. The future also remains uncertain as more immune evasive omicron subvariants become dominant in the U.S.
HHS did not send that notice out on Friday, the deadline, which means the emergency has been extended through the spring, the administration official said. How the U.S. fares against Covid this fall and winter will help determine whether the emergency needs to be renewed again moving forward, Becerra told reporters in October.”
The emergency declaration increased public access to Medicaid-based health insurance. When the emergency declaration is revoked, an estimated 15 million people could no longer participate in Medicare or other federal programs.
