It is important to note that the Administration’s continued response to COVID-19 is not fully dependent on the COVID-19 PHE, and there are significant flexibilities and actions that will not be affected as we transition from the current phase of our response. We will work closely with partners, including state, local, Tribal, and territorial agencies, industry, and advocates, to ensure an orderly transition. Addressing COVID-19 remains a significant public health priority for the Administration, and over the next few months, we will transition our COVID-19 policies, as well as the current flexibilities enabled by the COVID-19 emergency declarations, into improving standards of care for patients.
We have come to this point in our fight against the virus because of our historic investments and our efforts to mitigate its worst impacts. New COVID-19 hospitalizations are down nearly 80%.COVID-19 deaths have declined by over 80%, and.Daily COVID-19 reported cases are down 92%,.history, with nearly 270 million Americans receiving at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine.Īs a result of this and other efforts, since the peak of the Omicron surge at the end of January 2022: Over the last two years, the Biden Administration has effectively implemented the largest adult vaccination program in U.S. Our response to the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, remains a public health priority, but thanks to the Administration’s whole of government approach to combatting the virus, we are in a better place in our response than we were three years ago, and we can transition away from the emergency phase. Based on current COVID-19 trends, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is planning for the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19, declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, to expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023.
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