COVID-19 support payments will be wound back as vaccinations rise. So what do the experts say willl happen?
3 years, 2 months ago

COVID-19 support payments will be wound back as vaccinations rise. So what do the experts say willl happen?

ABC  

Disaster payments that have supported more than 2.1 million people are being wound back as COVID-19 vaccination rates rise and restrictions ease. But the federal government announced last month the payments would reduce and end as states and territories hit a vaccination rate of 70 and 80 per cent of the population aged 16 and over. "For those who haven't already returned to the workforce following the end of the temporary payment as the economy opens up, the social security system will support eligible individuals back into work," he said. 'Devil is in the detail' AMP Capital chief economist Shane Oliver says it is "high risk" to tie the removal of payments to vaccination targets, "rather than to actual economic conditions and particularly the state of the jobs market". Nicki Hutley of Social Outcomes says it's the right time to wind back special supports, "but it is inevitably the most vulnerable who will be affected".

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We asked, you answered: How do you feel about the end of the COVID-19 'emergency'
1 year, 7 months ago

We asked, you answered: How do you feel about the end of the COVID-19 'emergency'

NPR  

We asked, you answered: How do you feel about the end of the COVID-19 'emergency' Enlarge this image toggle caption Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images The COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency is over, lifted by both the World Health Organization and the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "I tried contacting our health …

How raising the nation’s debt limit could reduce spending of some coronavirus relief funds
1 year, 7 months ago

How raising the nation’s debt limit could reduce spending of some coronavirus relief funds

Associated Press  

With the pandemic officially over, leftover coronavirus relief money for vaccines, public health initiatives and other programs has become a target as negotiators try to reach a budget deal to raise the nation’s debt limit. HOW MUCH IS AT STAKE The Congressional Budget Office estimates that halting the use of unobligated pandemic relief funds would result in a net spending …

The COVID public health emergency ends this week. Here's what's changing
1 year, 8 months ago

The COVID public health emergency ends this week. Here's what's changing

NPR  

The COVID public health emergency ends this week. Here's what's changing Enlarge this image toggle caption Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images On Jan. 31, 2020, with six confirmed cases of a new coronavirus in the U.S., a group of federal health officials gathered somberly at the lectern at the White House and declared …

COVID-19 no longer a global emergency, says WHO
1 year, 8 months ago

COVID-19 no longer a global emergency, says WHO

The Hindu  

The World Health Organization said on May 5 that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide. “It's with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus …

California’s COVID emergency is ending. How will it change your life?
1 year, 10 months ago

California’s COVID emergency is ending. How will it change your life?

LA Times  

This March 2020 photo along La Brea Avenue in midtown Los Angeles was taken during the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak. California’s 3-year-old COVID-19 state of emergency will lift Tuesday — a development that reflects the dawn of a next, hopeful phase of the pandemic, even as officials and experts say continued vigilance and preparation are necessary to maintain the …

What happens to COVID vaccines and drugs authorized for emergency use when health emergency ends?
1 year, 10 months ago

What happens to COVID vaccines and drugs authorized for emergency use when health emergency ends?

LA Times  

On May 11, the central pillar of the country’s pandemic response — the declaration of a national emergency that began March 1, 2020 — will come down. If the secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services makes a declaration that “circumstances exist to justify” it, the FDA is allowed to grant emergency use authorization to badly needed medications, …

How life will change for Americans as Joe Biden announces the lifting of COVID-19 emergency
1 year, 11 months ago

How life will change for Americans as Joe Biden announces the lifting of COVID-19 emergency

Firstpost  

The end of the emergency may limit access to COVID-19 drugs, tests, and vaccines. When the emergency status is lifted on 11 May, federal funding for free treatment or vaccination will end, further slowing the already low uptake of boosters President Joe Biden announced on 30 January, 2023, that he intends to end both the national emergency and the public …

Fight to end virus pandemic takes place on UN’s sidelines
2 years, 3 months ago

Fight to end virus pandemic takes place on UN’s sidelines

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — In four days of fiery speeches over war, climate change and the threat of nuclear weapons, one issue felt like an afterthought during this year’s U.N. General Assembly: the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gathered with World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and others to discuss equitable access …

Experts say U.S. suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic
2 years, 9 months ago

Experts say U.S. suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic

LA Times  

In the latest Senate package targeted at stopping the coronavirus, U.S. lawmakers dropped nearly all funding for curbing the virus beyond American borders — a move many health experts slammed as dangerously short-sighted. He said Uganda has leaned heavily on donor help — it received more than 11 million vaccines from the U.S. — and that any cuts “would make …

COVID-19 is fading. But ending the health emergency could leave us vulnerable
2 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 is fading. But ending the health emergency could leave us vulnerable

LA Times  

As the coronavirus releases its deadly grip on the United States and pandemic rules governing daily life fall away, is it time to declare the national public health emergency over? “This’ll be a whole new world.” The public health emergency was first declared by then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Jan. 31, 2020. The federal government’s $19.3-billion program …

This is how the COVID-19 health emergency could be over this year, WHO says
2 years, 11 months ago

This is how the COVID-19 health emergency could be over this year, WHO says

LA Times  

John Nkengasong, left, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and moderator Julia Chatterley during a remote panel on vaccine equity at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday. Dr. Michael Ryan, speaking during a panel discussion on vaccine inequity hosted by the World Economic Forum, said “we may never end the virus” because such pandemic viruses “end …

'Big and bold' JobKeeper, coronavirus supplement support gone and replaced with disaster payments, but some say it's not enough
3 years, 4 months ago

'Big and bold' JobKeeper, coronavirus supplement support gone and replaced with disaster payments, but some say it's not enough

ABC  

Locked-down workers and businesses are struggling to get by with lower levels of assistance than the programs that saved the economy in 2020. Key points: $5.1 billion in ‘pandemic response’ payments have been made since June 70 per cent has gone to NSW, where 960,000 people have received at least one payment Many support programs from 2020 have ended, despite …

Here's a rundown of the COVID-19 disaster payments and business supports announced by Scott Morrison
3 years, 5 months ago

Here's a rundown of the COVID-19 disaster payments and business supports announced by Scott Morrison

ABC  

People and businesses in NSW facing economic hardship will receive increased support in the wake of packages announced by the state and federal governments. It means disaster payments already announced for people in COVID-19 hotspots will be expanded, and businesses doing it tough will get payments as long as they don't sack staff. COVID disaster payments are growing Earlier this …

Covid impact on cancer patients
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid impact on cancer patients

India TV News  

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year and now its resurgence in the second wave we have been left unprepared in true sense to fight this biggest threat to human race in recent times. COVID and cancer In the last one year, we have seen COVID infecting mostly older age group, but now even the young and children …

What Will It Take To End The COVID-19 Pandemic?
4 years ago

What Will It Take To End The COVID-19 Pandemic?

NPR  

What Will It Take To End The COVID-19 Pandemic? Sponsor Message "We don't want to sit in an island in the world where rich countries are fully immunized, while the rest of the world is dying from COVID," he says. "In many pockets around the world, it's becoming increasingly likely that people will not get access to the COVID-19 vaccine …

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