COVID tests and treatments will cost more when public health emergency ends

Some Americans will be required to start paying for coronavirus tests and treatments when the federal government's COVID-19 public health emergency declarations expire this spring, Axios reports. The White House announced Jan 30 that after three years, it will end the COVID-19 public health emergency and national health emergency designations on May 11, bringing about policy changes, new health care costs and existential questions about the nation's pandemic response.