The federal public health emergency declaration expired on Thursday, May 11. Since there are safe and effective vaccines, ample testing infrastructure, and most people have some level of immunity, COVID-19 is no longer a public health emergency.
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The federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) declaration for COVID 19 expired at midnight on Friday. According to the DHP, "Now that we have safe and effective…
Health departments across Georgia will continue to offer free COVID-19 vaccinations and tests in the wake of Thursday s expiration of the federal Public Health Emergency declaration.
this year, in an abundance of caution, we thought it was best to go ahead and reinstitute that to try to slow the spread. one of the questions we have here in d.c. for how long? what are your metrics? how do you know when it s time to not have it in place anymore? to pull it back like you did last time? well, i think very clearly, the numbers are going up. we want people, hospitalizations to go down. our community transmission index by its own state standard being less than 100. we are way past that. our positivity rates to go down and our vaccine rates to go up. georgia has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. we re a little above that. maybe about 42% which means most people this savannah, chatham county, at this point are not vaccinated. we have to get our vaccination rates up. so serve trying to figure out