Biden plans to overhaul U.S. health agency to create a pandemic-response unit
Even as the president himself was revealed early Thursday to have tested positive for COVID-19, the administration of President Joe Biden is planning to overhaul the federal health department and create a new independent division to lead the nation’s pandemic response, the Washington Post reported, citing seven people briefed on the plan.
The idea is to phase in the new division over two years to bolster federal government’s response to medical emergencies, whether a pandemic or the recent monkeypox outbreak. The World Health Organization’s emergency committee is meeting Thursday to consider for the second time within weeks whether to declare monkeypox a global crisis, as the Associated Press reported.
The news comes as U.S. COVID cases are rising again after being steady for several months, as the BA.5 omicron subvariant becomes dominant. BA.5 is understood to be the most transmissible variant seen so far and to have an ability to break through vaccination and cause reinfection. See now: Are you confused about BA.5 and the current state of the pandemic? Here’s how the experts are thinking about it.• New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she does not expect to mandate face masks for students when they return to school in the fall, but will reserve the right to do so if case numbers change, the Daily News reported. The state will be sending out about three million test kits to districts ahead of start of the school year.
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