However, the Health Ministry emphasized the importance of the vaccination campaign, even after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. It added that immunization against COVID-19 is essential to maintain transmission control and that Brazilians must complete the vaccination schedule with both...
The pandemic highlighted America's rigid, inequitable health care system and forced us to look at how our health care system was not working for so many people. Through this time, the health care system adapted with increased flexibility and a renewed focus on people. We now have an ...
too, reflect its waning effect on day-to-day life. As of May 11, the federal government is no longer categorizing COVID-19 as a national public health emergency, and that means some of the policies and provisions adopted during the height...
The COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency (PHE) were declared by the Trump Administration in 2020. They are currently set to expire on March 1 and April 11, respectively. At present, the Administration’s plan is to extend the emergency declarations to May 11, and then en...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The U.S. government on Thursday will lift the COVID-19 public health emergency that has been in effect for more than three years. By ending the emergency phase of the publichealthresponse, "That kind of puts a period at the end of the pandemic sentence...
Faust:A 7-day average of 368 COVID deaths. Is the pandemic over? Is the COVID-19 pandemic still an emergency? Jha:So we're in a much better place, right? Three-hundred sixty-eight deaths or 400 deaths, wherever we are, is still way too many, and I can come back to that. But...
On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced plans to end the Public Health Emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023. The PHE was...
The COVID-19 national and public health emergencies officially end today with the expirations of two dual emergency declarations – so what should employers expect?. One of the two declarations is the public health emergency (PHE) declared in January 2020 by the Department of Health and Human ...
The EEOC’s capstone guidance update makes clear that while COVID-19 is no longer a “public health emergency,” employers continue to have obligations under the ADA and other federal anti-discrimination laws related to the impact of the virus on the workplace. Additionally,as...
By way of background, in connection with the COVID emergency, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced some welcomed relief in the form of a general extension of time for meeting many of the deadlines pertaining to health and welfare plans. Notably, after more than t...