The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced yesterday that the public health emergency for Covid-19 has been renewed once again, citing a continued spread of new variants and overall ‘pandemic fatigue.’ HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra announced the renewal of it for the 12th time now since the initial one by Alex Azar in January of 2020 under the Trump administration.
Each emergency declaration only last 90 days, and must be picked-up again to keep it going.
In a statement to The Hill, an HHS spokesperson said,
The Covid-19 Public Health Emergency remains in effect, and as HHS committed to earlier, we will provide a 60-day notice to states before any possible termination or expiration.
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White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told CNN, “there’s still a lot of Covid out there, and the public health emergency and his determination gives us tools to fight this.”
The secretary made a decision that the tools of the public health emergency are still necessary to continue to fight this virus.
Jha added
Prior to this renewal Politico hinted that this may actually be the last time they renew this emergency protocol. The outlet wrote:
Senior Biden officials are targeting an end to the emergency designation for Covid as soon as the spring, after debating doing so last summer and taking a pass, three people with knowledge of the matter told POLITICO. Should they do so, such a move would represent a major pivot point in the country’s battle with the pandemic.
The decision, which has not yet been finalized amid more immediate efforts to manage a recent spike in Covid cases, would trigger a complex restructuring of major elements of the federal response — and set the stage for the eventual shifting of greater responsibility for vaccines and treatments to the private market. It would kickstart a transition away from the White House-led crisis operation and toward treating the virus as a continuous long-term threat.
And for President Joe Biden, who campaigned on eliminating the virus, it would symbolize a measure of progress toward an early pledge that has proven far more difficult than anticipated to keep.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
We’ll see what happens, but I am doubtful the emergency measures will end, just like all the “emergencies” that never end and go away, but continually are funded and codified on the books; with the ignorant masses unaware of the fact because it not only became normalized, but also because the media did not report on it on purpose.
By keeping the measures in place it would guarantee more money to be printed, justifying the Feds to print more and more money, and that can be distributed amongst all their rich friends.
Time will tell.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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