Putting an end to emergency declarations means that the US will be treating COVID like any ‘normal’ disease ie, such as the seasonal flu.
In essence, a national COVID response from the federal government will no longer be required and instead, the regular authorities will resume the responsibility of directly managing the disease.
This is a widely expected move, because COVID is pretty much a disease that’s here to stay. Epidemiologists theorizes that COVID is similar to the flu in that both are highly contagious diseases that are manageable by vaccination.
This is very different from the SARS pandemic in 2002, which lasted eight months because that virus was very deadly and thereby sadly, killing the majority of the human hosts that it had infected. Subject to strict quarantine measures, the human hosts of SARS did not survive to pass on the virus and thus, the pathogen was eradicated.
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