Republicans call on Biden to end COVID's public health emergency designation

Posted on AllSides February 14th, 2022
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Republicans in Congress have asked President Biden to end the designation of COVID-19 as a public health emergency (PHE), citing the accessibility of vaccines and effective treatments as well as the harms of long-term isolation on public health.

Their request for the president to undo the designation comes as calls grow — including from former Biden advisers — for the federal government to chart a course for the next stage of the pandemic. Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have plunged after the dramatic omicron-driven surge, and deaths have begun falling as well, though...

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https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/1080303338/republicans-call-on-biden-to-end-covids-public-health-emergency-designation

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