The White House will shut down its covid response team after the public health emergency ends in May, with some staffers already departing and national coordinator Ashish Jha likely to leave the administration once his team is disbanded.
A senior administration official said in a statement to The Washington Post that it makes sense now to shift out of emergency status.
“As a result of this administration’s historic response to Covid-19, we as a nation are in a safer, better place than we were three years ago,” the official said. “Covid no longer disrupts our lives because of investments and our efforts to mitigate its worst impacts. Covid is not over, fighting it remains an administration priority, and transitioning out of the emergency phase is the natural evolution of the covid response.
The White House covid team has been shrinking for some time, but its formal end marks a milestone in the trajectory of the pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak engulfed the end of Donald Trump’s presidency and the beginning of Biden’s, became a central focus of the U.S. government for three years, and erupted into one of the biggest public health crises in the nation’s history.Some experts said there are practical reasons to wind down the response, noting the virus’s decreasing burden on the U.S.
“If not now, then when?” said Bob Wachter, chair of the department of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco who said he has served as an informal adviser to Jha. “I’m increasingly persuaded by the arguments that this has to fold into the way we manage other diseases.”Others said that the move was, if anything, overdue and that phasing out the White House’s role earlier would have let the government shift the cost of vaccines and treatments to the private sector.
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