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 ...
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...
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...
By ending the emergency phase of the publichealthresponse, "That kind of puts a period at the end of the pandemic sentence," Vanderbilt University's Dr. William Schaffner, an expert on infectious diseases, said. "We're clearly past the pandemic phase of COVID-19 here in the United States...
On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced plans to end the Public Health Emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023. The PHE was...
Dr. Jha is the dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, but he's on leave right now because he is currently serving as the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator. Dr. Jha, thanks so much for joining us. Jha:Hey, Jeremy. Thanks for having me here. ...
COVID is poised to become an endemic disease — one that is always a part of our environment, no matter what we do
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...
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 ...
Patent waivers are not enough to end COVID-19 vaccine inequality, said the World Trade Organization chief. The global trade body has for months been facing calls led by India and South Africa to temporarily remove the intellectual property protections on COVID-19 vaccines, in a m...