{"id":236555,"date":"2022-12-28T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=236555"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:53:10","slug":"end-the-national-emergency-and-public-health-emergency-declarations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=236555","title":{"rendered":"End the National Emergency and Public Health Emergency Declarations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National COVID-19 Emergency, first declared by President Trump in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, was formally extended a second time by President Biden on February 18, 2022 and will come up for a third consideration by Biden in February, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared a public health emergency (PHE) in response to the outbreak of COVID-19. Public health emergency declarations ease certain laws and regulations to make it easier to address the emergency and allow some federal grant money to flow toward addressing the emergency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A PHE is a lesser event than a national emergency, which triggers a rapid outlay of federal money to address the emergency. National emergencies also give great unliteral power to the president, allowing the president to do things such direct flows of money from the national treasury, deploy the national guard, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a clinical point of view from a physician who has treated COVID-19 from the very beginning, a PHE would be evident if hospital capacity was exceeded by COVID-19 patients and care could not be provided to other patients with urgent problems. As a general rule this would be >15% occupancy by COVID-19 patients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From that perspective, the COVID-19 PHE ended in January, 2021 once hospital capacity ramped up to meet demand. I checked the CDC website and the weekly cases of COVID-19 has maintained its unimpressive pattern of oscillations while hospitalized cases are about 5000 well below that 15% threshold of about 130,0000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CDC December 16, 2022. As of December 14, 2022, the current 7-day average of weekly new cases (65,067) decreased 2.9% compared with the previous 7-day average (67,034). A total of 99,705,095 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the United States as of December 14, 2022. The current 7-day daily average for December 7\u201313, 2022, was 5,010. This is a 2.3% increase from the prior 7-day average (4,899) from November 30\u2013December 6, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emergency declarations have allowed for prepurchase of vaccines, government coverage of COVID-19 health care costs, Medicaid expansion, and Emergency Use Authorization of diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines without full FDA approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout US history there has been a reluctance by the executive branch to end national emergencies and relinquish power. After investigations of abuses of power in prior years, the House agreed to a Senate amended bill, and President Gerald Ford signed the National Emergencies Act into law on September 14, 1976. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This act was designed to restore the checks and balances of power and end emergencies. On two occasions, March 3, and November 15, 2022, the Senate voted 48-47 and 62-36, respectively, to end the national emergency declaration nearly three years after it was invoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The House did not pick up the bills and the Biden administration said it would veto any attempts to end the emergency declaration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would former President Trump have ended it? Why hasn\u2019t any reporter asked him that question now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the PHE controlled by HHS, twenty-five Republican governors have signed a letter asking President Joe Biden to direct HHS to end it, saying \u201cit is time we move on from the pandemic and get back to life as normal.\u201d A main reason for this move is to end the expansion of Medicaid provisions and get state budgets back into alignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In summary, both national emergencies and PHE are power grabs that facilitate unchecked decisions and flows of money fostering corruption and continued desire to extend the declarations. The House and the Senate figured this out back in the 1970\u2019s and found a legislative way of ending them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until these declarations are dropped, we will continue to careen out of control on health policy, pandemic response, corruption, and fiscal irresponsibility. The most important question you can can ask a lawmaker, governor, or president or candidate: \u201cAre you in favor of dropping the emergency declaration and PHE? If not why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you find \u201cCourageous Discourse\u201d enjoyable and useful to your endeavors, please subscribe as a paying or founder member to support our efforts in helping you engage in these discussions with family, friends, and your extended circles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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25 governors call on feds to \u2018move on\u2019 from pandemic, end COVID-19 public health emergency Kimberly Bonvissuto DECEMBER 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 22, 2022 Senate Approves Resolution to End COVID-19 National Emergency Declaration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Stories | Reasserting Checks and Balances: The National Emergencies Act of 1976 July 1, 2021 By Senate Historical Office<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National COVID-19 Emergency, first declared by President Trump in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, was formally extended a second time by President Biden on February 18, 2022 and will come up for a third consideration by Biden in February, 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":236563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-890.png?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-Zxp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":210351,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=210351","url_meta":{"origin":236555,"position":0},"title":"Get Ready for the 100 Year Long Climate \u201cEmergency\u201d","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"26\/07\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"From the MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN Francis Menton On March 13, 2020, then\u00a0President Trump declared a \u201cnational emergency\u201d\u00a0due to the newly-arising outbreak of the Covid-19 virus. 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