The COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges that epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and restaurant-goers on Peachtree Street in Atlanta have tried to tackle. While some public health measures have ended, COVID continues to circulate, leaving high-risk individuals worried. Jen Kates, Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation, stated that there is no definitive end for the pandemic due to varying symbolic, political, and practical aspects. Furthermore, the pandemic has claimed close to 1.13 million lives in the U.S., according to the CDC. President Biden recently signed legislation to terminate the public health emergency for COVID on May 11, 2022, which had been initiated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in January 2020. Some emergency measures will be phased out, including the additional 20% Medicare payment to hospitals treating patients with COVID-19. Private insurance will take over payments for COVID tests, vaccines, and antiviral medications after the federal stockpile runs out.
Additionally, telehealth usage has increased during the pandemic, and the government has loosened restrictions on payments by insurance and which services can use it. Data collection has changed, and it is harder to measure the number of infected people. Several organizations are pulling back on daily updates or winding down their services. Rothenberg, Regents’ Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University, stated that the pandemic has shifted into “low-level, manageable endemicity”. While COVID is no longer causing severe disruptions, the virus is still a threat, with the elderly and medically fragile at greater risk. Despite the decline in COVID cases and deaths, individuals should not assume that the pandemic is fully mitigated.
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