Biden plans to end the COVID emergency in the United States, what does it mean?

In September of last year, during a television interview, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, he claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic was over. That there was still a problem with the coronavirus but no longer a pandemic.

The president recently announced to Congress that On May 11, the two emergency declarations related to COVID-19 will end.

What does this mean exactly?

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End of the COVID-19 emergency in the United States

In January 2020, for the first time, in the United States the public health emergency was declared by COVID-19. In March of the same year, a few months later, then-President Donald Trump declared a national emergency because of the virus that put the whole world in check.

Since then both declarations of emergency They have been updated, apparently until the middle of this 2023.

Does it mean that the coronavirus is over and that there are no more infections? Not really, just that it will restructure the federal response to the virus.

It means that once it happens, the coronavirus will be treated only as an endemic threat to public health, that is, a disease that occurs in a population within a specific geographic area, that does not go away.

This infection will then be handled through the agencies authorities.

One of the main consequences is that government purchases of vaccines will be reduced, so free vaccines they will be greatly reduced and will be available to the population only if purchased.

This also implies that vaccine prices will skyrocket.