U.S. Ends Pandemic Public-Health Emergency. What Comes Next?

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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A.M. Edition for May 11. The U.S. government has formally ended its pandemic crisis response. WSJ reporter Sabrina Siddiqui and editor Jonathan Rockoff explain what changes are in store as testing and surveillance lose some federal support. Plus, the Biden administration targets power plants with tough new emissions rules. And Donald Trump urges Republicans to risk a U.S. default in order to win spending cuts. Luke Vargas hosts. Correction: An earlier version of this episode incorrectly said ChatGPT was owned by Microsoft. It is owned by OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft. (Corrected May 11) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:12.4	The US ends its COVID-19 public health emergency.
0:22.0	We'll survey the changes ahead.
0:24.2	If we take away the ability of the federal government to cover the cost of testing, if
0:29.0	we are asking individual health plans to decide if people will have to pay for vaccines
0:35.1	and treatments, there's a concern that some of the best tools we have for fighting infections
0:41.4	could be limited somewhat.
0:42.8	Plus, the Biden administration targets power plants with tough new emissions rules and
0:48.4	former President Trump urges Republicans to risk a US default in order to win spending
0:54.2	cuts.
0:55.2	It's Thursday, May 11th.
0:56.2	I'm Luke Vargas with Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,
1:01.6	the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
1:10.8	The US federal government has formally ended its crisis response to COVID-19.
1:16.1	The end of the public health emergency, first declared in January 2020, will bring about
1:21.3	a number of changes to the way health care was provided during the pandemic, and we'll
1:25.4	talk about some of those in just a minute.
1:28.0	But other effects will touch a very different set of policies, including around immigration.
1:33.5	That's because the pandemic era border measure, known as Title 42, is set to end tonight
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