The COVID-19 public health emergency has finally ended. With 7 million lives lost and families and communities shattered, the pandemic has left our world in turmoil. For over 1,200 days, humanity stood together in the face of an unprecedented global
During the Covid Public Health Emergency (PHE), flexibility for prescription delivery by a physician owned pharmacy was allowed leading many practices to deliver oral cancer therapies to patients who could not otherwise come to clinics to fill their medications. With the end of the PHE, CMS ...
January 31, 2023, will mark three years since the day the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) first declared a public health emergency (PHE) due to COVID-19. The federal government passed a cascade of new laws, regulations, and guidance that aff...
The coming end to the COVID-19 public health emergency doesn’t mean the end of all FDA authorities exercised during the pandemic. Our FDA/Food, Drug & Device Team explores what will happen to the FDA’s emergency use authorizations and COVID-19 enforcement guidances, among other enforcement...
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...
On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced plans to end the Public Health Emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023. The PHE was...
世卫组织总干事谭德塞博士2023年底的新年寄语:保持健康活着的希望 26 December 2023 2023年12月26日 以下视频来源于 联合国 2023 was a year of milestones and challenges in global public health. In May, I declared an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern.This marked ...
Once the public health emergency is lifted, Covid-19 will be treated like any other infectious disease. While the mandatory mask mandate will be lifted, it will still be in place at government offices (including health facilities) and private businesses who choose to keep it. The City of Iqa...
On 5 May, the World Health Organization lifted its designation of COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern. The abatement of the pandemic represents an extraordinary scientific achievement. However, COVID-19 remains a threat and its
On January 30, 2023, the Biden administration announced its intention to make final extensions of both the COVID-19 National Emergency (NE) and the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) through May 11, 2023, at which point both will end. These emergency declarations have been in place for...