{"id":1225052,"date":"2023-05-09T20:21:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesstelegraph.co.uk\/covid-still-an-emergency\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T20:21:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T19:21:39","slug":"covid-still-an-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesstelegraph.co.uk\/covid-still-an-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid still an emergency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- newscabal uk text -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8162386273903324\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3688094655\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-brcount=\"12\">On May 10, the US will be under a <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Opinion#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/public-health-emergency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public health emergency<\/a> (PHE). On May 11, it won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>But the coronavirus that necessitated that government-declared emergency does not have a calendar. The <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Opinion#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> announcement that the PHE is winding down won&#8217;t transform Covid-19 at the stroke of midnight, like some viral Cinderella. What it means is that some of the core public health tools to contain the coronavirus &#8211; notably free vaccines, free treatment and free testing &#8211; will go away&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Covid raised the risk of blood clots, stroke, diabetes, heart failure and other dangerous conditions, and that&#8217;s not widely appreciated amongst the public. That aftermath is getting a lot less attention than all the bogus reports of &#8216;sudden death&#8217; from vaccines flooding social media&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of free vaccines, medication and testing starting in May will create new challenges. Poor people, uninsured people &#8211; including those who live in conservative states that have resisted expanding Medicaid under Obamacare &#8211; and minority communities will be most at risk, said <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Opinion#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/julie-morita\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julie Morita<\/a>, the executive vice-president of the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Opinion#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/robert-wood-johnson-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Wood Johnson Foundation<\/a> and the former public health commissioner of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Exactly the same people who were disproportionately impacted at the beginning of the pandemic will again be more vulnerable,&#8217; she said. Disparities that had narrowed will widen; risks of bad outcomes will grow&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>From &#8216;The Public Health Emergency is Ending. 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