WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden notified Congress on Monday that he will end a dual national emergency to tackle COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned to near state. normally almost three years from the time they were first declared.
The move to end the national emergency and declare a public health emergency will formally restructure the federal coronavirus response to treat the virus as a threat. endemic to public health can be managed through the usual authorities.
It comes as lawmakers have ended elements of the emergency that left millions of Americans covered during the pandemic. Combined with withdrawing most of the federal COVID-19 relief money, it would also move vaccine and treatment development away from the direct federal government.
