Consumers should check with their insurer about access because coverage varies by state and insurance company.
Private insurers: They are no longer required to pay for eight home tests a month. Medicare: Enrollees will no longer receive free at-home tests, but lab tests are covered. 30, 2024 state Medicaid programs will decide whether to continue coverage after that. Medicaid: Free tests are available until Sept. What's happening with COVID testingĬonsumers can still order free home tests through , but access might change because the Biden administration has paused buying tests and supply may be limited. The end of the public health emergency also marks significant changes to the COVID-19 response that could affect testing and treatment, vaccines, data reporting, health coverage and telemedicine. Latest: A new COVID variant called Arcturus is linked to pink eye More: Why travelers with disabilities worry about Biden's end to COVID public health emergencyįrom the archives A timeline of how COVID unfolded in the US over the first 5 months But widespread immunity through infection and vaccines has protected most Americans from developing severe disease. Variants of the virus continue to appear, causing increases in hospitalizations and deaths across the country, Watson said. 
and globally,” said Crystal Watson, associate professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “There’s no real mechanism to declare an end to the pandemic, but it is an end to the emergency phase, both in the U.S. To date, more than 1.1 million people in the country have died. While it closes a chapter in history, health experts point out the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over as the virus continues to claim about 1,000 lives each week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Thursday marks the end of the public health emergency in the United States, more than three years after it was first declared to combat the novel coronavirus by unlocking powerful tools to detect and contain the emerging threat.
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