The emergency declaration gave the federal government flexibility in waiving certain rules affecting health care, including Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance, and gave free access to COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatments.
The federal public health emergency for COVID-19, in place in the US for more than 3 years, ends on Thursday. The implications will be felt by many physicians and their patients.
Getting updated vaccination “remains to be the most effective and best long-term protection” against the COVID-19 virus, according to the Department of Health, even as a new subvariant of Omicron was detected in the country earlier this month. What is the Arcturus subvariant? Should it be a cause for concern?