The End of the Pandemic Emergency in the U.S.

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The Biden administration said this week that it would end the public health emergency for Covid, a sign that federal officials believe that the pandemic has moved into a new, less dire phase. The move carries both symbolic weight and real-world consequences for millions of Americans. Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Taverni-C and this is The Daily.
0:07.0	The Biden administration said this week it would end the public health emergency for COVID,
0:15.4	closing this chapter of the pandemic three years after it started.
0:19.5	Today, my colleague, Apurva Mundavili, explains how it will affect Americans and why it does
0:25.9	not mean the end of COVID.
0:32.9	It's Friday, February 3rd.
0:43.1	So Apurva, the Biden administration announced that the public health emergency around COVID
0:48.3	is ending.
0:49.8	Can you explain what that means?
0:51.7	Yeah, so almost exactly three years ago when the pandemic started on January 31st.
0:58.7	Well, good afternoon, everyone.
1:01.1	I have today declared that the coronavirus presents a public health emergency in the United
1:06.3	States.
1:07.3	Alex Azar, who was then the Secretary of Health and Human Services, said that we were now
1:11.9	in a public health emergency.
1:13.9	In accordance with the declaration, the United States government will implement temporary
1:19.0	measures to increase our abilities to detect and contain the coronavirus proactively and
1:24.6	aggressively.
1:26.1	And that was an acknowledgement that the virus was spreading in the country.
1:30.4	And a public health emergency, which is something that the government does every once in a
1:33.4	while when there is one, allows the government to do a lot of different things to cope with
1:38.4	this special situation.
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