COVID Health Emergency and COVID Shot Update

Twila Brase is the president and co-founder of Citizens' Council for Health Freedom. She's a registered nurse, a certified public health nurse, and author of the eight-time award-winning book, Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth About Electronic Health Records. She's the speaker on the daily Health Freedom Minute heard on stations across the nation.

Yesterday the White House reported that President Joe Biden intends to end the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies. This won't happen today, nor will it happen retroactive to September 18th of 2022 when he said on the 60 Minutes TV program that the pandemic is over. Instead, he will end the emergencies over 3 months from now on May 11th, 2023. Why then?

Twila noted that since the Republicans are now in charge of the House, they are clamoring for the end of the emergency declarations, so she believes Biden wants to claim to be the one who ended it rather than letting the Republicans force his hand.

Could this be due to some legislative activity? For instance, there's HR-382—The Pandemic is Over Act as well as HR-497—The Freedom for Healthcare Workers Act. This latter piece of legislation removes the vaccine mandate on healthcare workers around the nation. As Twila explained, the Biden administration has been clinging to the mandate that communicates that as a condition of participation in Medicare and federal programs, all healthcare providers and workers have to be vaccinated or they will be terminated unless they meet an exemption. This act would completely eliminate the mandate and let workers go back to their jobs and let hospitals be more fully staffed.