Ending emergencies will lead to renewed health equity issues

May 14, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

Last week, I gave you an overview of the changes coming with the end of the federal public health emergency (PHE). This week, I’d like to focus on the health equity implications of the PHE’s end. With the end of extra supplies and resources tied to the emergency, people who are already vulnerable to other health issues will become more at risk for COVID-19.

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WHO ends the global health emergency for COVID-19

May 7, 2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

As the U.S. gears up to end its federal public health emergency for COVID-19, the World Health Organization just declared an end to the global health emergency. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the declaration on Friday, following a meeting of the organization’s COVID-19 emergency committee the day before.

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The federal public health emergency ends next week: What you should know

May 7, 2023.Reading time 18 minutes.

We’re now less than one week out from May 11, when the federal public health emergency (or PHE) for COVID-19 will end. While this change doesn’t actually signify that COVID-19 is no longer worth worrying about, it marks a major shift in how U.S. governments will respond to the ongoing pandemic, including how the disease is tracked and what public services are available. Here’s all the key info you should know about this, in one place.

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CDC shifts away from COVID-19 Community Levels with the federal emergency’s end

April 30, 2023.Reading time 8 minutes.

After May 11, the CDC will stop reporting COVID-19 Community Levels, according to reporting by Brenda Goodman at CNN. The agency is overall planning to shift from using case data to hospitalizations and wastewater surveillance.

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Sources and updates, April 2

April 2, 2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

Sources and updates for the week of April 2 include archived CDC data, federal COVID-19 emergencies, the global health workforce, and more.

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Sources and updates, February 19

February 19, 2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

Sources and updates for the week of February 19 include test positivity, healthcare data sharing, and the value of vaccination.

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What the public health emergency’s end means for COVID-19 data

February 5, 2023.Reading time 8 minutes.

This past Monday, the White House announced that the federal public health emergency for COVID-19 will end in May. While this decision might be an accurate reflection of how most of the U.S. is treating COVID-19 right now, it has massive implications for Americans’ access to tests, treatments, vaccines—and data.

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Looking ahead to the big COVID-19 stories of 2023

January 15, 2023.Reading time 11 minutes.

As someone who’s been reporting on COVID-19 since the beginning, a new year is a good opportunity to parse out what feels like an eternity of pandemic reporting. So this week, I reflected on the major trends and topics I hope to cover in 2023—both building on my work from prior years and taking it in new directions.

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Potential data fragmentation when the federal COVID-19 public health emergency ends

September 18, 2022.Reading time 14 minutes.

COVID-19 is still a public health emergency. At the moment, this is true according to both the general definition of this term and official declarations by the federal government. But the latter could change in the coming months, likely leading to more fragmentation in U.S. COVID-19 data.

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