The covid public health emergency is ending: it now joins the ordinary emergency that is American health

On 10 April 2023, the US President Joe Biden signed into law a resolution terminating the covid-19 national emergency. Though the virus remains a leading cause of death in the US, the administration will disband its covid response team next month.12 These decisions came with very little fanfare, especially given Biden’s repeated promises to end the pandemic. Indeed, many Americans who witnessed the declaration of the public health emergency in March 2020 are not here to see its end. The US has buried more than 1.1 million Americans—more casualties than in almost any other country.34 For three years running, covid has been our nation’s third leading cause of death.5In recent months, the Biden Administration has pointed to falling covid death rates as a sign that the emergency is over.6 It’s true that covid deaths have declined from the peaks of more than 3,000 daily deaths in winter 2021.7 Yet, even…
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