Even though the federal public health emergency is expiring and the World Health Organization announced there's no longer a global health emergency, Austin Public Health says COVID-19 has not gone away.
KUT talked with Walkes about ongoing efforts to address COVID in Austin-Travis County as the federal public health emergency expires.On the current Austin-Travis County COVID-19 landscape:
We have a robust — right now — ability to continue on with our economic, school and all of our pursuits without having a sharp trend upward in cases, which is really a good sign. All of those things make us hopeful that we're on the other side of this, and we can go into a recovery phase of this pandemic and start taking care of people with long COVID and checking on our kids and making sure they're thriving and not having trouble with mental health issues.COVID’s not gone. It's still with us.
If we're going to visit somebody who is immunocompromised — protecting them by making sure we're not sick is still going to be important. We now have the availability of the bivalent booster as an option for people over the age of 65. So anybody who's not taking the opportunity to get that bivalent vaccine — to be up to date — now would be a good time to do that as we go and celebrate the achievements of our kids who are graduating.
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