Biden Administration to End Covid Emergency in May

The Biden administration has announced that it intends to end the Covid-19 national and public health emergencies on May 11. One of the impacts of the change will be that many Americans could have to start paying for Covid-19 testing and treatment after the declarations cease.

The White House, in a statement of administration policy announcing opposition to two House Republican measures to end the emergencies, said the national emergency and public health emergency authorities declared in response to the pandemic would each be extended one final time to May 11. According to the Whitehouse, “First, an abrupt end to the emergency declarations would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system — for states, for hospitals and doctors’ offices, and, most importantly, for tens of millions of Americans.”