The Biden Administration has extended the COVID-19 public health emergency yet again.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra announced on Wednesday that the health emergency will continue despite Biden saying last year that the pandemic is over.
“The pandemic is over,” the president told Scott Pelley as they talked last week at the Detroit Auto Show back in September. “We still have a problem with Covid. We’re still doing a lot of work on it … but the pandemic is over. if you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it’s changing.”
The full text of the extension reads as follows:
“As a result of the continued consequences of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, on this date and after consultation with public health officials as necessary, I, Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, pursuant to the authority vested in me under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act, do hereby renew, effective January 11, 2023, the January 31, 2020, determination by former Secretary Alex M. Azar II, that he previously renewed on April 21, 2020, July 23, 2020, October 2, 2020, and January 7, 2021, and that I renewed on April 15, 2021, July 19, 2021, October 15, 2021, January 14, 2022, April 12, 2022, July 15, 2022, and October 13, 2022, that a public health emergency exists and has existed since January 27, 2020, nationwide.”
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Oh ffs. 👉Biden administration extends COVID-19 public health emergency yet againhttps://t.co/Qr7f6YAu5R
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) January 11, 2023
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