Twenty-five U.S. governors are urging President Joe Biden to end the COVID-19 public health emergency, which has remained in place despite a drop in COVID-19 metrics and the emergence of less virulent variants.
The governors say the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic is and has been over for some time, noting that Biden himself said in September that “the pandemic is over.”
They also pointed out that the U.S. Senate in a bipartisan vote in November passed a resolution that would terminate the emergency, though the House of Representatives has not yet taken up the measure.
“We agree with both your statement and the Senate’s resolution – it is time we move on from the pandemic and get back to life as normal,” Gov. Chris Sununu (R-N.H.) and 24 other Republican governors wrote to Biden in a letter dated Dec. 19….