A former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official said that the Biden administration should end the public health emergency and focus more on the treatment options for COVID-19, a disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. “The Biden administration has doubled down to reauthorize and reissue a federal public health emergency,” Rik Mehta, a former deputy division director with FDA, told NTD Monday. “But they haven’t really added any scientific or evidentiary basis on why we are in an emergency, and many of us have been arguing—myself included—for a long period of time: You cannot live in a continual, perpetual state of emergency. It’s either an emergency or it’s not.” On Jan. 14, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra extended the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency for an additional 90 days, effective from Jan. 16, 2022. That’s the eighth time the federal government has done so since …