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A parallel health emergency is slated to end next month, cutting off federal funding for some public health measures, including the cost of diagnostic tests and vaccines. “People will have to start paying some money for things they didn’t have to pay for during the emergency,” Jen Kates of the Kaiser Family Foundation explained to CNN.
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Officially, the coronavirus will cease to be a “pandemic” when the World Health Organization (WHO) drops the designation. There are now clear guidelines for doing so, but WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus is clearly moving in that direction. “I am confident that this year we will be able to say that COVID-19 is over as a public health emergency of international concern,” he said at a briefing last month.
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