Covid is “over”

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Or at least the federal government is over spending money on it. Vox’s resident epidemiologist, Keren Landman, explains the end of the public health emergency. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is the day.
0:03.6	Today, the 11th of May 2023 is the day that the COVID-19 public health emergency ends
0:10.3	in the United States.
0:11.3	But what exactly does that mean?
0:13.3	I asked Dr. Karen Landman, she's Vox's in-house epidemiologist.
0:18.1	Did we do it?
0:19.1	Is COVID finally over?
0:21.1	Sean, no, come on, nobody is saying that.
0:25.3	Oh.
0:29.1	This just means that the money's run out.
0:33.2	Democrats in Congress tried to get funding extended for the public health emergency and
0:37.1	Republicans said no.
0:38.1	And actually a bunch of Democrats also said no.
0:40.8	And so the funding for a bunch of COVID-related stuff and for a bunch of non-COVID-related
0:45.5	stuff that does actually have a huge impact on health is gone.
0:50.2	What that means to the United States of America coming up on today's point.
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