President Joe Biden ends US Covid emergency status
1 year, 8 months ago

President Joe Biden ends US Covid emergency status

Hindustan Times  

President Joe Biden on Monday officially ended the Covid national health emergency that for more than three years underpinned extraordinary efforts to provide care for a country where more than a million people died from the disease. Read here: US gov appeals court to halt abortion pill order The White House said Biden signed a law passed earlier by Congress "which terminates the national emergency related to the Covid-19 pandemic." Although the US is now formally turning its back on the worldwide pandemic, the Biden administration is already working on a next generation vaccine and other measures to combat any future variant of the virus, the White House said. Read here: Apparent leak of US intel poses 'very serious' security risk: Pentagon A fund of at least $5 billion is available to "help catalyze scientific advancement" and “stay ahead of the rapidly evolving virus that causes Covid-19.”

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Biden says new Covid vaccines are 'likely' to be recommended to EVERY American this fall - including children - amid upswing in infections
1 year, 3 months ago

Biden says new Covid vaccines are 'likely' to be recommended to EVERY American this fall - including children - amid upswing in infections

Daily Mail  

President Biden said he will recommend that everyone gets one President Biden has said his Administration will 'likely' recommend that all Americans roll up their sleeves for an updated Covid booster vaccine this fall. Biden said today that he had signed off a proposal to present to Congress for extra funding for updated Covid vaccines that will be 'likely recommended' …

Immigration policy is uncertain now that Title 42 has been lifted
1 year, 7 months ago

Immigration policy is uncertain now that Title 42 has been lifted

NPR  

Immigration policy is uncertain now that Title 42 has been lifted Enlarge this image toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images Mario Tama/Getty Images For the last three years, a previously obscure emergency public health order allowed politicians to temporarily sidestep one of the most complicated issues in American politics — migration at the United States' southern border. Sponsor Message The Biden …

Migrants rush to the US border as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire
1 year, 7 months ago

Migrants rush to the US border as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire

Hindustan Times  

Migrants rush to the US border as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire The US ended a three-year-old asylum restriction, Title 42, stirring fear among migrants that the changes would make it more. The US ended a three-year-old asylum restriction, Title 42, stirring fear among migrants that the changes would make it more difficult for them to stay on. On the …

Editorial: With Title 42 ending, Biden relies on the same failed immigration policies
1 year, 7 months ago

Editorial: With Title 42 ending, Biden relies on the same failed immigration policies

LA Times  

Dozens of immigrants from as far away as India and Africa wait to be processed by Customs and Border Protection officers Friday along the border wall in Somerton, Ariz. The border management strategy known as Title 42 has allowed the United States to expel asylum-seeking migrants en masse for the past three years using a public health pretext. Operation Hold …

Explained: Title 42 and how its expiration will affect immigration at the US-Mexico border
1 year, 7 months ago

Explained: Title 42 and how its expiration will affect immigration at the US-Mexico border

Firstpost  

The United States is getting ready to lift COVID-19 restrictions that have blocked migrants caught at the US-Mexico border from seeking asylum since 2020, a major policy shift with humanitarian and political implications. In April, the US Border Patrol apprehended some 183,000 migrants, according to preliminary data provided by Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a 13 …

US to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week
1 year, 7 months ago

US to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said Monday. “But our healthcare system or public health resources are far more able to respond to the threat that COVID poses to our country and do so in …

U.S. to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week
1 year, 7 months ago

U.S. to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week

The Hindu  

The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said on May 1. The unvaccinated minority “can cause a lot of damage, and they are.” Federal courts and Congress have already rolled back Mr. Biden's vaccine requirements for large employers …

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts
1 year, 8 months ago

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. The national emergency allowed the government to take sweeping steps to respond to the …

President Joe Biden ends US Covid emergency status after 3 years
1 year, 8 months ago

President Joe Biden ends US Covid emergency status after 3 years

India Today  

The US national emergency to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. The public health emergency — it underpins tough immigration restrictions at the US-Mexico border — is …

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts
1 year, 8 months ago

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts

LA Times  

President Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring the national emergency to respond to COVID-19 to an end. The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public …

How Biden asylum rule affects immigration, compares to Trump
1 year, 10 months ago

How Biden asylum rule affects immigration, compares to Trump

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden’s administration prepares for the end of regulations tied to the coronavirus pandemic that have severely limited the ability of asylum seekers to enter the U.S., it has proposed a rule that could dramatically alter who’s allowed to claim asylum at the southern border. Melissa Crow, a lawyer with the Center for Gender & Refugee …

Supreme Court won’t hear arguments Title 42 case as planned
1 year, 10 months ago

Supreme Court won’t hear arguments Title 42 case as planned

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says it will not hear arguments as planned March 1 in a case involving a Trump-era immigration policy used several millions of times over the past three years to quickly turn away migrants at the border. The justices on Thursday removed from their calendar the case involving Title 42, which justified the quick expulsion of …

Opinion: The COVID ‘emergency’ is ending. Here’s who will be hurt most
1 year, 10 months ago

Opinion: The COVID ‘emergency’ is ending. Here’s who will be hurt most

LA Times  

Free COVID tests may no longer be available to people without insurance after the federal declaration of emergency ends in May. They also addressed access issues — getting people insured — by expanding Affordable Care Act subsidies for exchange policies, offering a temporary Medicaid coverage option for uninsured people in 15 states, and by not disenrolling anyone from Medicaid in …

How life will change for Americans as Joe Biden announces the lifting of COVID-19 emergency
1 year, 10 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 …

President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11
1 year, 10 months ago

President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden informed Congress on Monday that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned closer to normalcy nearly three years after they were first declared. Then-President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar first declared a public health emergency on Jan. 31, …

Biden administration to end COVID public health emergency in May
1 year, 10 months ago

Biden administration to end COVID public health emergency in May

Al Jazeera  

The move would restructure federal response to treat the virus as an endemic public health threat, ending some government support. United States President Joe Biden has informed Congress that his administration will formally end two national emergencies declared to address the COVID-19 pandemic on May 11, restructuring the federal response to the virus as an endemic public health threat. “An …

President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11
1 year, 10 months ago

President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11

LA Times  

President Biden talks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Monday, after returning from an event in Baltimore. Then-President Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar first declared a public health emergency on Jan. 31, 2020, and Trump later declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency that March. “An abrupt end to the …

Biden lawyers tell Supreme Court it’s time to end Trump policy at the border
2 years ago

Biden lawyers tell Supreme Court it’s time to end Trump policy at the border

LA Times  

President Biden’s lawyers urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject an emergency appeal from Republican-led states and end the Trump-era COVID-19 policy that turned away migrants at the border who were seeking asylum. The Title 42 policy, based on a long-standing public health emergency law, was imposed by the Trump administration during the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent infected people …

US plans end to mpox public health emergency in January
2 years ago

US plans end to mpox public health emergency in January

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The federal government plans to end in January the public health emergency it declared earlier this year after an outbreak of mpox infected more than 29,000 people across the U.S. Mpox cases have plummeted in recent weeks, with just a handful of new infections being reported every week in the month of November, according to data from the …

US judge gives Biden administration five weeks to end Title 42
2 years, 1 month ago

US judge gives Biden administration five weeks to end Title 42

Al Jazeera  

The judge earlier said ‘arbitrary and capricious’ border expulsion policy was unlawful in a ruling welcomed by rights groups. A judge in the United States has given President Joe Biden’s administration five weeks to end a contentious policy that allowed authorities to expel hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers arriving at the southern border with Mexico. The administration had filed …

Controversial Title 42 border policy vacated by federal judge
2 years, 1 month ago

Controversial Title 42 border policy vacated by federal judge

LA Times  

Migrants walk by the shore after crossing the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, in May 2022. A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday vacated a controversial border policy known as Title 42, a public health law invoked by the Trump administration during the pandemic that had allowed border agents to quickly turn back migrants. Previously, thousands of immigrants were …

Biden administration extends COVID public health emergency
2 years, 2 months ago

Biden administration extends COVID public health emergency

LA Times  

White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha speaks during the daily briefing at the White House on Oct. 11. The Biden administration said Thursday that the COVID-19 public health emergency will continue through Jan. 11, as officials brace for a spike in cases this winter. The public health emergency, first declared in January 2020 under the Trump administration and renewed …

Joe Biden says the Covid pandemic is ‘over’. Is he right?
2 years, 3 months ago

Joe Biden says the Covid pandemic is ‘over’. Is he right?

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But the US — like many other countries — still continues to grapple with …

White House says Covid-19 policy unchanged despite Biden’s comments that the ‘pandemic is over’
2 years, 3 months ago

White House says Covid-19 policy unchanged despite Biden’s comments that the ‘pandemic is over’

CNN  

CNN — The Biden administration is largely downplaying President Joe Biden’s comments declaring the coronavirus pandemic “over,” suggesting his remarks signal a continuation of the White House’s evolving stance toward the pandemic over the past few months. Biden outlined a transition in the White House’s perspective on the virus in March, saying at the time that Covid is not over, …

‘The next public health disaster in the making’: Studies offer new pieces of long Covid puzzle
2 years, 4 months ago

‘The next public health disaster in the making’: Studies offer new pieces of long Covid puzzle

CNN  

CNN — There’s no test for long Covid. Yet with vast numbers of people having had Covid-19, and estimates ranging from 7.7 million to 23 million long Covid patients in the US alone, researchers say it has the potential to be “the next public health disaster in the making.” The Biden administration released two reports this week to initiate a …

Federal judge extends the blocking of Biden administration’s plans to lift Title 42
2 years, 7 months ago

Federal judge extends the blocking of Biden administration’s plans to lift Title 42

LA Times  

Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande into the U.S. wait to be processed by Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas. In a ruling issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays in Lafayette wrote that lawyers for 24 plaintiff states had established that a “significant threat of injury” would arise if Title 42, a 1944 federal public health statute invoked …

Biden says he will comply with courts if judge says they cannot lift Title 42
2 years, 7 months ago

Biden says he will comply with courts if judge says they cannot lift Title 42

Daily Mail  

President Joe Biden on Thursday said his administration would comply with the courts on Title 42, the public health order being used to turn away migrants at the border. President Joe Biden said he would comply with the courts on Title 42 Asylum-seekers gather at the Plaza Las Americas migrant tent camp in Reynosa, Mexico - experts expect a surge …

Migrant crossings spike as US plans to lift curb on asylum
2 years, 8 months ago

Migrant crossings spike as US plans to lift curb on asylum

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Migrants attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at the highest level in two decades as the U.S. prepares for even larger numbers with the expected lifting of a pandemic-era order that turned away asylum seekers. Immigration authorities stopped migrants 221,303 times along the Southwest border in March, a 33% increase from a month earlier, according to U.S. Customs …

COVID remains a public health emergency for now, the WHO and Biden administration say
2 years, 8 months ago

COVID remains a public health emergency for now, the WHO and Biden administration say

NPR  

COVID remains a public health emergency for now, the WHO and Biden administration say Enlarge this image toggle caption Matt Dunham/AP Matt Dunham/AP The World Health Organization and the Biden administration are both saying that COVID-19 remains a public health emergency, even as global deaths from the virus have reached the lowest levels since March 2020. Both the WHO and …

Clash over immigration policy derails Senate COVID aid bill
2 years, 8 months ago

Clash over immigration policy derails Senate COVID aid bill

NPR  

Clash over immigration policy derails Senate COVID aid bill Enlarge this image toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Quick passage of a bipartisan $10 billion COVID aid bill is unlikely now that Senate Republicans — with the support of some Democrats — are trying to use the legislation as a way to extend Trump-era immigration restrictions. Senate Minority …

As Title 42 winds down, aid groups prepare for shift at US border
2 years, 8 months ago

As Title 42 winds down, aid groups prepare for shift at US border

Al Jazeera  

Migrant advocates and lawyers expect more people to arrive at US-Mexico border ahead of restrictive policy’s end in May. Now, as the Biden administration moves ahead with its plan to end Title 42, a health order invoked due to COVID-19 that effectively barred most asylum seekers from entering the US, aid groups at the border are preparing for a shift …

COVID-19 Asylum Limits At US-Mexico Border To End May 23
2 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 Asylum Limits At US-Mexico Border To End May 23

Huff Post  

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control announced Friday that it is ending a policy that limited asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The use of public health powers had been widely criticized by Democrats and immigration advocates as an excuse for the United States to shirk its obligations to provide haven to people fleeing …

Opinion: Good riddance to this terrible Trump-era policy decision
2 years, 8 months ago

Opinion: Good riddance to this terrible Trump-era policy decision

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Raul A. Reyes is an attorney and a member of the USA Today board of contributors. CNN — The Biden administration announced on Friday that it will soon end a Trump-era immigration policy, known as Title 42, that allowed US officials to bar entry to migrants and asylum seekers at the US border on the grounds that they …

Joe Manchin speaks out against Biden's lifting of Trump-era border policy
2 years, 8 months ago

Joe Manchin speaks out against Biden's lifting of Trump-era border policy

Salon  

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin expressed his disdain for the Biden administration's plan to scrap the Trump-era border restrictions put in place as an emergency measure during the pandemic. Title 42 is a measure put in place by the Trump administration in March 2020 which allows U.S. immigration authorities to quickly expel migrants and asylum-seekers. "With encounters along our southern border …

US to end ‘Title 42’ border restriction in May: Reports
2 years, 8 months ago

US to end ‘Title 42’ border restriction in May: Reports

Al Jazeera  

Biden administration expected to revoke contentious policy by May 23 but decision not yet finalised, AP and Reuters say. US President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to lift a contentious border policy that prevents most asylum seekers from applying for protection in the United States, after calls to end “Title 42” have grown louder in recent weeks. “We are near …

COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits
2 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits

Associated Press  

SOMERTON, Ariz. — One by one, a voice called out the names of 169 people just released by U.S. Border Patrol. They were quarantined to motel rooms, while other migrants boarded chartered buses to Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport for flights across the U.S. Theirs were among just seven of 5,301 tests the Regional Center for Border Health near Yuma, …

COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits
2 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They were quarantined to motel rooms, while other migrants …

White House outlines new plan to combat COVID in US
2 years, 9 months ago

White House outlines new plan to combat COVID in US

Al Jazeera  

New preparedness plan requires more funding to restock the nation’s stockpile of tests, antiviral pills and masks. US President Joe Biden‘s administration has laid out a new national blueprint to combat COVID-19, including any possible future outbreaks of new variants, without shutting down schools and businesses. It said the additional funding would help restock the nation’s stockpile of tests, antiviral …

Republicans call on Biden to end COVID's public health emergency designation
2 years, 10 months ago

Republicans call on Biden to end COVID's public health emergency designation

NPR  

Republicans call on Biden to end COVID's public health emergency designation Enlarge this image toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Republicans in Congress have asked President Biden to end the designation of COVID-19 as a public health emergency, citing the accessibility of vaccines and effective treatments as well as the harms of long-term isolation on public health. More …

COVID leaves lasting scars as Biden marks first year in office
2 years, 11 months ago

COVID leaves lasting scars as Biden marks first year in office

Al Jazeera  

Victims’ families say they are still grappling with deep pain as US President Joe Biden vows to keep fighting the coronavirus. “For many of us, it’s been too much to bear,” Biden said during a news conference at the White House on the eve of his presidency’s official one-year mark on Thursday. “We’re in a very different place now, though; …

Biden urges concern but not alarm in US as omicron rises
2 years, 11 months ago

Biden urges concern but not alarm in US as omicron rises

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden urged concern but not alarm as the United States set records for daily reported COVID-19 cases and his administration struggled to ease concerns about testing shortages, school closures and other disruptions caused by the omicron variant. In remarks Tuesday before a meeting with his COVID-19 response team at the White House, Biden aimed to convey …

Biden beware: GOP sees opportunity in new COVID variant
3 years ago

Biden beware: GOP sees opportunity in new COVID variant

Salon  

Americans woke up on Black Friday this year to more than a food hangover and big crowds at the malls. Along with the rest of the world, we were greeted with news of a frightening new COVID variant that appears to have characteristics that may make it more dangerous than the previous strains. Within hours, the World Health Organization named …

Op-Ed: Continuing Trump’s pretext to block asylum claims, Biden defies the law and good politics
3 years, 1 month ago

Op-Ed: Continuing Trump’s pretext to block asylum claims, Biden defies the law and good politics

LA Times  

Dozens of men, women and children were led by U.S. Border Patrol agents and police to a holding area in June 2019 after they crossed into the U.S. to seek asylum. Just as the Trump administration invoked it in March 2020, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this summer that it would continue, the Biden administration could …

Opinion: The most important way of stopping another Covid surge
3 years, 1 month ago

Opinion: The most important way of stopping another Covid surge

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Jonathan Reiner, MD, is a CNN medical analyst and professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University. Dr. Jonathan Reiner We have tools to blunt the escalation of new cases, but we must act now with a sense of urgency – and that means intensifying efforts to increase vaccination rates in all age groups, using a range …

EXPLAINER: Biden uses Trump-era tool against Haiti migrants
3 years, 3 months ago

EXPLAINER: Biden uses Trump-era tool against Haiti migrants

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is relying on a contested Trump-era policy as it disperses thousands of Haitian migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in and around the small South Texas city of Del Rio. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday that most of the Haitians removed from the Del Rio encampment have been expelled under the authority of Title 42, …

The Biden Administration Is Fighting In Court To Keep A Trump-Era Immigration Policy
3 years, 3 months ago

The Biden Administration Is Fighting In Court To Keep A Trump-Era Immigration Policy

NPR  

The Biden Administration Is Fighting In Court To Keep A Trump-Era Immigration Policy Enlarge this image toggle caption Charlie C. Peebles/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Charlie C. Peebles/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images As the Biden administration moves quickly to expel migrants camped under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, its plan depends on a controversial Trump-era policy put in place …

Sweeping New Mandates, Vaccine Options Underway, and More Coronavirus News
3 years, 3 months ago

Sweeping New Mandates, Vaccine Options Underway, and More Coronavirus News

Wired  

Biden announces additional mandates, researchers probe new shots and treatments, and global vaccine distribution falters. Headlines The White House announces a sweeping new plan for combating the next phase of the pandemic Yesterday, President Biden announced a slew of new Covid-19 policies. All employers with over 100 employees will have to require either vaccinations or weekly testing, give workers paid …

Opinion: Biden’s six-point Covid plan leaves some holes
3 years, 3 months ago

Opinion: Biden’s six-point Covid plan leaves some holes

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of emergency medicine and associate dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University. The plan follows through on what many experts have been advocating for months: use of the power of the federal purse and occupational safety rules to encourage vaccination, whether for health care workers, public employees, …

‘Wrong and shameful’: Critics decry extended US COVID refugee ban
3 years, 4 months ago

‘Wrong and shameful’: Critics decry extended US COVID refugee ban

Al Jazeera  

The Biden administration has extended Title 42, an order that expels asylum seekers under COVID-19 precautions. #WelcomeWithDignity — RAICES August 2, 2021 “Biden is failing to deliver on his promise of a humane immigration approach by keeping in place Trump’s Title 42 which unlawfully expels refugees seeking safety in the US without due process,” Cristina Jimenez, founder of the United …

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