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...
Finally, we may be seeing a winding down of US Federal Government responses to the COVIDcrisis. January 30, 2023 is a date destined to go down in history as the beginning of the end of the draconian US Federal Government’s “public health” measures, which have been implemented in a st...
On Monday, April 10, 2023, President Biden signed legislation ending the COVID-19 National Emergency immediately. This legislation ends the National Emergency one month earlier than the May 11 date previously announced by the White House and federal regulators. ...
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 heigh...
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...
The end of the COVID public health emergency in May could mean big changes for some patients who have rely on telemedicine services.
The COVID-19 pandemic was first declared a “Public Health Emergency” (PHE) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on January 31, 2020, and was later declared a “National Emergency” on March 31, 2020. Since that time, the federal government ...
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,a...
The termination of an emergency immigration restriction known asTitle 42marks a major policy shift in how the U.S. processes migrants who reach the southern border, including those hoping to ask for asylum. For over three years, since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. border offici...
glided to their conclusion in a COVID-emptied stadium Sunday night as an often surreal mixed bag for Japan and for the world.A rollicking closing ceremony with the theme "Worlds We Share" — an optimistic but ironic notion at this human moment — featured everything from stunt bikes to intr...