The federal government is ending its funding for the pandemic as of today. "We're going back to pre-COVID funding for a lot of stuff," says CNN's John Sutter. People who are paying out of pocket will have to pay for everything out of pocket, he adds. But hospitalizations and deaths are in a way better place than they were earlier this year, said Sutter.
Or at least the federal government is over spending money on it. Vox’s resident epidemiologist, Keren Landman, explains the end of the public health emergency.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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