On May 11, the government officially ended the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). "We need to get used to it and adjust to our new reality," said one expert. (iStock) ...

Federal continuation of the emergency now likely into April 2023 is wise as the ramifications of withdrawing the public health emergency for Covid-19 emergency could have been very bad. Here’s why.

For the second time in three years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that mpox, an infectious viral disease previously known as monkeypox, presented a global health emergency. The ...

Since Covid was first declared a public health emergency by Secretary of Health and Human services Alex Azar on January 31, 2020, the designation has been renewed 13 times, typically in 30 day ...

Congress expanded access to public and private health insurance coverage during the emergency, which sharply lowered uninsured rates. Even so, some 30 million people in the US remain uninsured.

The public health emergency for COVID-19 is slated to end on May 11, close to three years after it was first declared by the Trump administration.

The coronavirus public health emergency, declared by the Trump administration in 2020, will expire on Thursday. Interviews with senior health officials suggest the nation is not ready for a new ...

Ready or not, it’s over. The country’s public health emergency touched off in January 2020 by the sudden appearance of a novel coronavirus formally enters the history books when the day ends ...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency, as U.S. health officials continued to warn about the risk of its spread.. The WHO issued an emergency for ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday the extension of the nation's own, separate public health emergency declaration for COVID-19 for 90 days.

The WHO defines a public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC, as “an extraordinary event” that constitutes a “public health risk to other States through the international ...

The end of the public health emergency also marks significant changes to the COVID-19 response that could affect testing and treatment, vaccines, data reporting, health coverage and telemedicine ...