The U.S. Covid-19 Public-Health Emergency Is Over
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The scientists of today are creating the next big thing. |
| 0:04.5 | On the Wall Street Journal's future of everything podcast, |
| 0:07.3 | get an early listen to what tomorrow has in store. |
| 0:10.6 | Find us wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:13.1 | The US ends its COVID-19 public health emergency. |
| 0:23.5 | We'll survey the changes ahead. |
| 0:25.7 | If we take away the ability of the federal government |
| 0:28.8 | to cover the cost of testing, if we are asking individual health plans |
| 0:33.3 | to decide if people will have to pay for vaccines and treatments, |
| 0:38.6 | there's a concern that some of the best tools we have |
| 0:41.3 | for fighting infections could be limited somewhat. |
| 0:44.5 | Plus, the Biden administration targets power plants |
| 0:47.6 | with tough new emissions rules and former President Trump |
| 0:51.2 | urges Republicans to risk a US default |
| 0:54.6 | in order to win spending cuts. |
| 0:56.9 | It's Thursday, May 11th. |
| 0:58.3 | I'm Luke Vargas with Wall Street Journal, |
| 1:00.2 | and here is the AM edition of What's News, |
| 1:03.2 | the top headlines and business stories moving your world today. |
| 1:07.1 | The US federal government has formally |
| 1:14.3 | ended its crisis response to COVID-19. |
| 1:17.8 | The end of the public health emergency first |
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