California to End Its COVID State of Emergency
Perhaps you heard the announcement this week that President Joe Biden plans to end the nation’s COVID public health emergency in May, signaling that the pandemic has moved into a less dire phase.The state’s coronavirus emergency declaration will expire Feb. 28, almost three years after it began. It gave Gov. Gavin Newsom broad power to issue mandates intended to slow the spread of the virus, as well as to bypass certain state laws.
But the state seems to have avoided a catastrophic winter surge, and reports of new cases have been falling in recent weeks. Three-fourths of all Californians have received at least an initial vaccination against the virus. “I want to live as fully as I can, but am comfortable taking reasonable steps to avoid infection,” Wachter said on Twitter.
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