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Ending public health emergency for mpox may provide trial run for COVID

Posted On: Dec. 5, 2022 9:28 AM CST

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 United States, reports the Associated Press. Winding down the mpox public health emergency will be a test run of sorts for the Biden administration as it braces to declare an end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, which is expected to last at least through Jan. 11.