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What does ending the emergency status of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US mean in practice? 4 questions answered

  • Written by Marian Moser Jones, Associate Professor of Health Services Management, Policy and History, The Ohio State University
What does ending the emergency status of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US mean in practice? 4 questions answeredCOVID-19 hasn't vanished, but at this point it's doing less damage.Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision via Getty Images

The COVID-19 pandemic’s public health emergency status in the U.S. expires on May 11, 2023. And on May 5, the World Health Organization declared an end to the COVID-19 public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC,...

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