COVID Is Over! (If You Want)
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Biden administration announced it will end the national and public health emergency declarations for COVID on May 11th, marking a new phase in the government’s response to the pandemic. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, host of Crooked’s “America Dissected” podcast, tells us about the potential health care consequences of the decision, and the benefits that will likely cease later this year.
And in headlines: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank, the I.M.F. released a slightly more optimistic report for the global economy, and House Republican George Santos said he plans to temporarily step down from his committee assignments.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, February 1st. I'm Priyanka Erbindi. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm wanting to tell everyone this is what a day where we will not be missing January |
| 0:13.3 | at all. Yeah, look January, you had your chance, you had 31 chances. In fact, you blew it |
| 0:19.6 | every single time. I mean, February is about to do it better in fewer days. Plus is Black |
| 0:25.4 | History Month. So let's go positive vibes only. On today's show, Republican representative |
| 0:33.1 | George Santos said he will temporarily step down from his congressional committees. Plus |
| 0:38.4 | a warning to parents, keep your kids away from the food delivery apps. Maybe. But first, |
| 0:47.3 | the Biden administration announced that it will end the national and public health emergency |
| 0:51.1 | declarations for COVID on May 11th. The state of emergency was declared by the Trump administration |
| 0:56.6 | in early 2020 and has been ongoing for nearly three years now. Biden's announcement came |
| 1:01.8 | as he criticized the effort by House Republicans to end the emergency declaration immediately. |
| 1:06.6 | The White House has said that that would be completely disruptive and chaotic. But you |
| 1:11.2 | know, this move will really be the start of a new phase of response to this pandemic, |
| 1:15.0 | despite the fact that hundreds of Americans are still dying every single day from this virus. |
| 1:20.4 | To hear a little bit more about the decision and its potential consequences, we brought |
| 1:23.7 | in our good friend, Dr. Abdul El Sayed. It's great to be back. I really appreciate it. |
| 1:28.8 | Although, y'all come talk to me whenever that stuff happens in public health. You know, |
| 1:32.0 | I'm telling you, like, at some point, I'm hoping to come on and share the secrets to my |
| 1:36.5 | wonderful skin routine. But actually, what's your take on vitamin C real quick? I'm joking. |
| 1:43.2 | Let's go. Let's go. We'll get into that later. But let's dive right in. What is this move |
| 1:49.5 | from the Biden administration? Say about the state of the pandemic or more specifically |
| 1:53.1 | how federal health officials are thinking about it? |
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