It's The End Of The COVID Emergency As We Know It
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What A Day
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🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Today marks the official end of the nationwide COVID-19 public health emergency. It was declared in January 2020, when just six cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed in the U.S. Now, more than three years later, more than 1.1 million people in the United States in total have died from the virus. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, host of Crooked’s America Dissected, joins us to talk about what the end of the emergency will mean for many Americans.
And in headlines: the Trump-era border policy Title 42 officially expires today, New York Representative George Santos pleaded not guilty to felony fraud charges, and MTV News has shut down after 36 years on the air.
Show Notes:
- Kaiser Family Foundation: What Comes Next After the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends – https://tinyurl.com/ck7w8zp9
- LAist: As Pandemic Emergencies End, People Battling Long Covid Feel ‘Swept Under the Rug’ – https://tinyurl.com/bdzkp2h5
- What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcast
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 11th. |
| 0:03.3 | I'm Erin Ryan. |
| 0:04.3 | And I'm on you to Taliver, and this is what a day where we are doing everything in |
| 0:08.6 | our power to dodge every Beyoncé concert video on our timelines. |
| 0:12.7 | All you have to do is avoid the internet for the next what, three months or so, right? |
| 0:16.6 | Girl, she literally just posted spoilers on her own Instagram. |
| 0:20.4 | I can't mute her. |
| 0:21.4 | She's the queen. |
| 0:22.4 | She will find out. |
| 0:23.9 | She will know. |
| 0:24.9 | She gets a push notification when people mute her. |
| 0:26.9 | She's gonna hunt me down. |
| 0:28.9 | On today's show, New York representative George Santos has pleaded not guilty to felony |
| 0:36.2 | fraud charges. |
| 0:37.5 | Plus, this year's top dogs have been picked at the Westminster Dog Show. |
| 0:41.3 | But first, today marks the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, even |
| 0:46.4 | though there are still more than 1,000 cover related deaths each week in the United States |
| 0:51.3 | according to the World Health Organization, as well as regular reports of new variants, |
| 0:56.1 | and we still have no idea about the extent of harm that long COVID has had, and we'll |
| 1:01.6 | continue to have on us as a people. |
| 1:04.0 | But according to the government, it's over y'all, knowing those stats and realities, though, |
| 1:09.0 | it's safe to say that we've got a lot of questions about exactly what changes today, |
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