California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state will end its COVID-19-related state of emergency in February, nearly three years after it began.
said Monday the state will end its COVID-19 state of emergency in February 2023, nearly three years after it was first declared.
"Throughout the pandemic, we’ve been guided by the science and data – moving quickly and strategically to save lives. The State of Emergency was an effective and necessary tool that we utilized to protect our state, and we wouldn’t have gotten to this point without it," Newsom said in a statement."With the operational preparedness that we’ve built up and the measures that we’ll continue to employ moving forward, California is ready to phase out this tool.
The emergency declaration allowed California to have the lowest death rate among large states, Newsom's office said in a news release. If California had a similar death rate as Texas, 27,000 more people would have died, the release said. If California had Florida’s rate, that would have resulted in 56,000 additional deaths, it said.
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