The U.S. government will end the COVID-19 public health emergency Thursday.
It allowed millions of Americans to receive vaccines, tests and treatments at no cost. Illinois will also end its emergency.Telehealth and some healthcare benefits including to Medicare and Medicaid may be impacted. They will still pay for lab-based PCR tests and Medicaid will continue to pay for at-home tests. But private insurance companies may charge co-pays for those tests.
Since the start of the year, Chicago has seen over 32,000 recorded COVID cases and more than 100 deaths. Nationwide, weekly cases and hospitalizations are down drastically from previous years, although COVID is being blamed for the deaths of 1,100 people weekly across the country. "I think for some people this is going to seem very arbitrary and accelerated that the emergency part of this pandemic is coming to an end," Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN medical correspondent, said. "For other people, they're going to say 'Hey look, months ago, maybe even a year ago, I was sort of through this.'"According to their data, there have been more than 700 million confirmed cases worldwide since the pandemic started.
In Chicago, a group called People's Response Network plans to hold a press conference Thursday calling on Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson about the COVID emergency cancellation and rebuilding the Chicago department of health.
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