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"content": "\u003cp>If you are uninsured or you’ve been on unemployment benefits this year, new financial help — passed by Congress this year — means you might be eligible for free health insurance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A special enrollment period put in place by the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/coronavirus/\">ends on Aug. 15\u003c/a>, so consumers will need to act fast to sign up for one of these plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health plans without monthly premiums come in several different flavors, some of which have been around for a while, and some of which are new. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is Medicaid, which is the state-federal public plan for low-income people. And, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/\">HealthCare.gov\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/marketplace-in-your-state/\">the state marketplaces\u003c/a> there are free “\u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/choose-a-plan/plans-categories/\">bronze plans\u003c/a>” — the lowest tier of plans — that might be available with zero-dollar premiums depending on your income. Both of those have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/millions-of-uninsured-americans-are-eligible-for-free-aca-health-insurance/\">options for years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, there’s also a new free plan option open to a new category of people. The American Rescue Plan included \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/22/989448586/health-insurance-for-10-or-less-a-month-you-may-qualify-for-new-discounts\">a lot of changes\u003c/a> to help make it easier and more affordable to enroll, including new and more generous subsidies for premiums, cost-sharing support for low-income people and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One major change: If you’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/more-savings/\">received unemployment benefits\u003c/a> at any point this year, you might qualify for a comprehensive silver plan through the end of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put it all together? There are zero-cost premium plans available to 13.3 million Americans — nearly half of the 29 million or so uninsured. Yet puzzlingly few have enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are millions of people who are passing up free health insurance,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/person/cynthia-cox/\">Cynthia Cox\u003c/a>, director of the Program on the ACA at the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, who authored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/how-the-american-rescue-plan-act-affects-subsidies-for-marketplace-shoppers-and-people-who-are-uninsured/\">recent brief\u003c/a> on the topic. “That free health insurance — most of the time — actually comes with very low deductibles, too. So a lot of times, people could have all — or the vast majority — of their health care costs paid for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the uninsured, 5 million are eligible not for free plans, but are for subsidized ones, and an additional 10.7 million people are not eligible for either, because they live in a state that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/01/1011502538/12-holdout-states-havent-expanded-medicaid-leaving-2-million-people-in-limbo\">not expanded Medicaid\u003c/a>, are undocumented immigrants or have access to an affordable plan through their employer or the ACA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/how-the-american-rescue-plan-act-affects-subsidies-for-marketplace-shoppers-and-people-who-are-uninsured/\">according to KFF’s analysis\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why would millions of people pass up the chance at free health coverage? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still hear constantly that people have no idea that this was an option,” says Jeremy Smith, a health insurance navigator at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://acanavigator.com/wv/home\">First Choice Services\u003c/a> in West Virginia. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/navigator/\">Navigators\u003c/a> give free advice to people who want to enroll in ACA plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1612\" height=\"1084\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11883600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM.png 1612w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM-800x538.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM-1020x686.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM-1536x1033.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1612px) 100vw, 1612px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bad experiences trying to sign up in the past, or plans with high out-of-pocket costs and deductibles might have turned people off, Smith says. Even though many plans are available that have zero-dollar premiums, some may still have other \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/choose-a-plan/your-total-costs/\">out-of-pocket costs\u003c/a> to be aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He finds most of the people he’s enrolling are still paying something every month, but it really varies. “For one family, it might make sense to take the zero-dollar plan that’s got a little bit higher deductible,” he says. “The next [family] can dig in, and they may be willing to pay $100 a month if it means their deductible’s lower and their co-pays are lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he thinks a lot of people are missing out. “Even though everybody’s trying to do all they can to say there’s these new options, a lot of people just think they don’t qualify, therefore they don’t look into it,” Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inertia is also a powerful force, says Louise Norris, who co-owns an insurance brokerage in Colorado. Or maybe people are concerned about documentation or having to make \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/11/01/775391311/open-enrollment-is-here-6-tips-for-choosing-a-health-insurance-plan\">complicated choices\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Louise Norris, owner of a Colorado-based insurance brokerage\"]‘There are so many little reasons that somebody might be hesitating, and when you put them all together, you end up with at least a few million people who are leaving these benefits on the table.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many little reasons that somebody might be hesitating, and when you put them all together, you end up with at least a few million people who are leaving these benefits on the table,” Norris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some new people have been signing up on HealthCare.gov and the state marketplaces. The Biden-Harris administration’s last report showed \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/14/health-care-sign-ups-surpass-2-million-during-2021-special-enrollment-period-ahead-of-aug-15-deadline.html\">2 million new people\u003c/a> enrolled in health plans, although it’s not clear how many of them enrolled in one of these free plan options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these affordable options, years of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/20/552094974/bemoaning-budget-cuts-health-care-navigators-say-feds-dont-get-it\">slashed budgets for outreach\u003c/a> under the Trump administration had an impact on how many people are aware of the insurance marketplace at all, says Katie Roders Turner, a navigator with the Family Healthcare Foundation in central Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the last four years, there was this vacuum of information — and misinformation in addition to that,” she says. “I think it’s a knowledge gap, and I think that a marketing response is really going to make a big difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration has been putting some effort into marketing the plans and trying to get the word out about the fact that enrollment is now open and there are new discounts available. It’s running digital and TV ads and publishing community toolkits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kaiser Family Foundation’s Cox says that outreach is needed, not just to tell people the plans are there and they’re more affordable now, but also to explain the value of having health insurance, even if it’s not a top-tier plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One-hundred percent of the time, if you can get a free bronze plan, you are better off than being uninsured,” she says. Some consumers are put off by high deductibles — the amount you would have to pay for any health care you use before your insurance plan picks up the tab. But even a high deductible plan is better than no coverage, she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you get hit by a bus or have COVID and need a hospitalization, that’s the difference between being $7,000 in debt versus being $50,000 in debt,” she says. “It can mean the difference between keeping your car or not, or keeping your house or not,” she adds. “That’s a big difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Sunday, one of the people who has a free plan is Deborah Kagan. She just moved from New York state — where she was on Medicaid after being laid off during the pandemic — to Florida, where she’s not eligible for Medicaid. She was extremely stressed about the move and losing coverage, especially because she has Type 1 diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Deborah Kagan\"]‘Without my medication, I’m dead. And during COVID, I also found out that I had breast cancer and I had a brain tumor, and it was just one thing after the other.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without my medication, I’m dead,” she says. “And during COVID, I also found out that I had breast cancer and I had a brain tumor, and it was just one thing after the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because she’s been on unemployment benefits, a navigator with the Family Healthcare Foundation walked her through enrolling in a free silver plan that will cover most of her health costs through the rest of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The navigators “knew everything — all the updates — and guided me through every step of the way and were just beyond helpful,” she says. Having a free plan lined up, she says, is “a huge relief and it will help me focus on finding a job quickly.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.feedingamerica.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/National%20Projections%20Brief_3.9.2021_0.pdf\">1 in every 6 children\u003c/a> facing hunger in the U.S., California is the first state to promise every public school student — all \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr21/yr21rel32.asp\">6 million of them\u003c/a> — free school meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The universal school meals program, which will launch in the 2022-2023 school year, is part of the landmark state budget agreement reached between Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature last month. Days later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/as-seen-on-tv/new-law-requires-free-school-meals-for-all-maine-public-students-regardless-of-family-income-starting-2022-2023/97-4e822474-cd25-4641-958e-c0c8599971c3\">Maine\u003c/a> became the second state to commit to offering a universal school meals program with the signing of its budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program ensures that all students will be offered breakfast and lunch at their school, which state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, said is “essential to learning.” Skinner has led the effort to establish a universal school meal program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that many California children are food insecure, and if you’re hungry you cannot learn well,” Skinner said. “The whole point of school is learning, and everything we can do to create an environment that allows children to thrive and learn is what we need to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/california-moving-to-pioneer-free-meals-for-all-students/652779\">introduced a bill\u003c/a> in March that would have established a universal school meal program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the program garnered bipartisan support and the California Department of Finance forecast \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/here-are-the-highlights-of-the-may-state-budget-revision/654773\">unexpectedly large projected revenues\u003c/a>, lawmakers opted to include it in the state budget rather than as a separate bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final agreement between Newsom and the Legislature calls for $650 million through the Proposition 98 fund each year to reimburse school districts starting in 2022, as well as $54 million in the 2021-22 fiscal year to supplement state meal reimbursements. Proposition 98 is the formula that determines what portion of the general fund goes to community colleges and K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state program is set to begin in the 2022-23 school year because the U.S. Department of Agriculture has already \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/usda-extends-free-meals-through-next-school-year/653335\">committed\u003c/a> to paying for school meals for all students through the 2021-22 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley\"]‘The whole point of school is learning, and everything we can do to create an environment that allows children to thrive and learn is what we need to do.’[/pullquote]The USDA has reimbursed districts for providing free meals to all students since the start of the pandemic. Before the pandemic, districts were only reimbursed for feeding students who were enrolled in the National School Lunch Program. Advocates said being able to feed students without having to check whether they qualified for free lunches allowed districts to serve more families at a time when many faced hunger and hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waiving the eligibility requirements allowed the Oakland Unified School District, for example, to distribute as many as 18,000 \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/grab-and-go-and-drive-up-allow-families-to-pick-up-food-at-closed-california-schools/626088\">grab-and-go meals\u003c/a> a day during the pandemic, said OUSD spokesman John Sasaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That just goes to show the need that was there,” Sasaki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, as part of the National School Lunch Program \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/cn/applying-free-and-reduced-price-school-meals\">application process\u003c/a>, families had to disclose their household income, how many people lived in the household, their children’s immigration status or if their children were homeless or runaways. Some families feared giving out that information, and students may have felt embarrassed to receive a free meal while others paid for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Education Stories\" tag=\"education\"]Schools in New York City began serving free meals to all students in 2017 after finding that some students would rather go hungry than admit they didn’t have enough money to pay for lunch. 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That’s because the number of families in the district that make so little that they qualify for the federal free and reduced-price lunch program remains a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/index.asp\">key factor\u003c/a> in the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2016/local-control-funding-formula-guide-lcff/89272\">Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/a>. The formula gives additional state funds to districts based on the number of low-income students, English learners, foster children and homeless youth they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Wold, West Contra Costa Unified School District associate superintendent of business services, said the district was concerned that fewer families would fill out the household income eligibility forms because they didn’t have to in order to receive free meals. That could have potentially led to a reduction in supplemental funds for the cash-strapped district. To help solve the problem, the district had outreach workers call families directly, explaining why it was important for families to submit the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Spokesman John Sasaki, Oakland Unified School District\"]‘We want to make sure kids are never given a hard time for being who they are or being in the situation they are in.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outreach workers’ “big lift” resulted in more families filling out the forms than the previous year, Wold said, which kept the district’s unduplicated pupils percentage constant. That statistic measures the share of a district’s students who are low-income, homeless, foster youth or English learners — all of which drive the Local Control Funding Formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outreach workers at Oakland Unified emphasize to families who are skeptical about the forms that they determine how much money goes to the classroom, Sasaki said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California School Boards Association spokesman Troy Flint said the organization anticipates it will be harder for districts to collect income eligibility forms with the new universal meals program. 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There were no applications, qualifications and no questions asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive turnout showed how much families rely on the meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School District, the state’s largest with 600,000 students, handed out upward of 400,000 meals a day, said spokeswoman Shannon Haber. San Luis Coastal, with 7,500 students, gave out 30,000 meals a week at the height of the pandemic, nearly triple the number before. The district includes the wealthy city of San Luis Obispo and lower-income areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was a pipe dream for a long time,” said Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, a longtime advocate for universal free meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backed by over 200 organizations in a coalition called “School Meals for All,” Skinner and other lawmakers pushed for funding in the state budget, seizing the momentum at a time when California is flush with cash. The $262 billion budget provides $54 million for the coming school year, supplementing funding from the Biden administration through June 2022. After that, California will spend $650 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a hungry child, you’re not going to learn well,” said Skinner. “Why should we have to go through a bureaucratic hassle to get a kid fed, when we could just have universal meals?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Education Committee Republicans supported the plan as a way to help families struggling with California’s high cost of living. State Sen. Brian Dahle, a Republican from a largely rural area of Northern California, said he had watched kids at his children’s school steal leftover food when cafeteria workers weren’t looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a lot of them that was their dinner and they were sneaking it or taking it off someone’s plate when they didn’t finish it,” said Dahle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools rarely turn hungry kids away. But for children who didn’t qualify and needed lunch, their parents were billed and many racked up huge debts. 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They found that in more than 70% of those counties, neighborhoods that are lower income and those that have larger percentages of people of color “experience significantly more extreme surface urban heat than their wealthier, whiter counterparts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relying on U.S. census data, the researchers found that in areas with higher rates of poverty, temperatures can be as much as 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer during the summer months than in nearby wealthier neighborhoods. The same held true for predominantly minority communities, as compared to nearby non-Hispanic, white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study is the latest to show how climate change driven by human activity disproportionately harms people of color and poor people. The warming climate is \u003ca href=\"https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/1/\">making\u003c/a> heat waves more frequent and intense. And even without heat waves, Americans can expect\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/climate/how-much-hotter-is-your-hometown.html\"> far more days over 90 degrees Fahrenheit\u003c/a> than there were just a few decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-heat-related-deaths\">Heat is the biggest weather-related killer of Americans, \u003c/a>according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kuow.org/stories/nearly-700-people-believed-to-have-died-in-northwest-heat-wave\">estimated 800 people\u003c/a> have already died in the heat wave that has gripped the Pacific Northwest this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers — Susanne Benz and Jennifer Burney of UC San Diego — found that in 76% of the counties they studied, lower-income communities experienced higher temperatures than those with higher incomes. When looking at neighborhoods by race, in 71% of counties, people of color lived in neighborhoods with higher temperatures than residents in largely white communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers point to several factors that are driving up temperatures in these neighborhoods, including more buildings, less vegetation, and to a lesser extent, higher population density.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous \u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249715\">studies\u003c/a> have shown that less vegetation can impact a city’s temperature, and that neighborhoods that are lower income and where there are more people of color tend to have less tree cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11879641,science_1975631,science_1975668\"]The researchers also note that the temperature differences they found weren’t unique to larger, more developed cities; heat disparities were also evident in many smaller, more rural areas with newer developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The existence of these gradients implies that the inequality we find in our cities does not only develop after large urbanization and growth, but manifests early in the existence of a city itself,” the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its authors also point to a long history of racist land-use policies that have driven such disparities, and urge local policymakers to make equitable development decisions that incorporate heat mitigation strategies, among other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These areas have less tree canopy, more streets, and higher building densities,” the authors contend, “meaning that in addition to their other racist outcomes, redlining policies directly codified into law existing disparity in urban land use and reinforced urban design choices that magnify urban heating into the present.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Extreme+Heat+Is+Getting+Worse+For+Low-Income%2C+Non-White+Americans%2C+A+New+Study+Shows&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Matthew Green contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Life hasn’t quite returned to the pre-pandemic status quo, but it feels much \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/04/1012503054/seeking-a-path-back-to-a-glorious-fourth-as-covid-clouds-begin-to-part\">closer to it \u003c/a>than it did six months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while we may long for officials to give an all-clear and declare the pandemic history, the health crisis is definitely not over, both in the U.S. and abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of \u003cem>when \u003c/em>the crisis will actually be over is a layered one — with different answers from a local, national and global perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Set-in-Stone Metrics for When it’s Over\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815420295/trump-to-discuss-coronavirus-amid-growing-crisis-scrutiny-of-his-response\">declared\u003c/a> COVID-19 a national emergency on March 13, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After many months in which the U.S. led the world in coronavirus cases, the virus is now under much better control here, due to the widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That federal emergency status is still in effect — it has been renewed several times, \u003ca href=\"https://www.phe.gov/emergency/news/healthactions/phe/Pages/COVID-15April2021.aspx\">most recently in April\u003c/a> — and can be extended by the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for \u003ca href=\"https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/legal/Pages/phe-qa.aspx#faq7\">as long as\u003c/a> deemed necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear whether the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will issue any sort of all-clear. 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So that virus could still carry a lot of surprises,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How a Pandemic Officially Ends\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/11/814474930/coronavirus-covid-19-is-now-officially-a-pandemic-who-says\">declared\u003c/a> COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11 last year – the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/11/975663437/march-11-2020-the-day-everything-changed\">same day\u003c/a> that life began to change dramatically in much of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when the virus eventually is under control, will WHO declare the pandemic over?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basically, yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, if the worldwide spread of a disease is brought under control to a localized area, we can say that it is no longer a pandemic, but instead, an epidemic,” a WHO spokesperson told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the official emphasized that the characterization of the outbreak as a \u003cem>pandemic\u003c/em> has no formal meaning under international law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What \u003cem>does\u003c/em> have a formal meaning is a “public health emergency of international concern” – a status \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-statement-on-ihr-emergency-committee-on-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)\">assigned\u003c/a> to COVID-19 at the end of January 2020. That’s the highest level of health alarm under international law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WHO convenes an international committee every three months to determine if an outbreak should still be considered such a global health emergency. And when it’s over, WHO says it’s over. That’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news/item/26-06-2020-final-statement-on-the-8th-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations\">what it did\u003c/a> last summer regarding an Ebola outbreak in Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it will most likely be a while before that happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus frequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/a-global-pandemic-requires-a-world-effort-to-end-it-none-of-us-will-be-safe-until-everyone-is-safe\">states\u003c/a>: None of us will be safe until everyone is safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not Out of the Woods Yet\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The delta variant has spread just as fast through the U.S. as epidemiologists feared it would. It now accounts for more than half the cases in the U.S., and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/07/06/1013582342/delta-is-now-the-dominant-coronavirus-variant-in-the-u-s\">far more than that\u003c/a> in certain states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/environmental-and-occupational-health-office-dean/lynn-r-goldman\">Lynn Goldman\u003c/a>, an epidemiologist and dean at the George Washington University School of Public Health, says the U.S. has some things working for it, and some against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is we’ve shown the ability to lower rates of transmission and deaths from the virus. And of course, Americans have widespread access to COVID-19 vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bad news, she says, is there’s resistance to the two main ways to prevent transmission — getting vaccinated and wearing a mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And unfortunately, those two attributes tend to coincide within the same people and within the same population subgroups,” Goldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, many of the same people who don’t want to get a vaccine also don’t want to wear a mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Goldman says, we’re likely to see continued transmission of the virus in the U.S., concentrated in the areas with the lowest rates of vaccination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]The current vaccines are highly effective against COVID-19, including the delta variant. That means vastly different outcomes for those who are vaccinated and those who aren’t. Last month, for example, 92 people died of COVID-19 in the state of Maryland. All of them were \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/local/305/2021/07/07/1013724138/only-unvaccinated-people-died-of-c-o-v-i-d-19-in-maryland-last-month-state-says\">unvaccinated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Local Numbers Can Be Most Informative\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The most precise indicators of progress or problems can be found on a very local level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National and even state-level metrics for infection or vaccination rates can be misleading, Mokdad says. A state’s overall vaccination rate can disguise much lower numbers in certain geographic pockets that remain highly vulnerable to outbreaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low vaccination rates make it easier for fast-spreading variants to take hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are many ways to track progress (or lack thereof) in controlling the virus, Mokdad says one especially useful metric is hospitalizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no way to make a mistake or underreport hospitalization for COVID-19, because everybody who goes to a hospital right now is being tested for COVID-19,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That stands in contrast to cases, which can go uncounted due to a lack of testing, and the number of deaths, which can spike weeks after other indicators during an outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Coronavirus Will Likely Spike Again This Winter\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even though U.S. cases are much improved from the peak, health officials say unvaccinated people are likely to continue to die from COVID-19 until we successfully control transmission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the next big challenge will come this winter, when another wave is expected as people move inside during colder months. There will also likely be some outbreaks as students go back to school — children under 12 are not yet eligible for the vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How dangerous the virus continues to be will depend on vaccination levels of the population and the lethality of the variant circulating when winter comes. How quickly a state or local government is willing to go back into restrictive measures — like wearing masks indoors — will play a role, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the short term, it will be seasonal, like what we see with the flu, simply because we don’t have enough vaccine to vaccinate everybody in the world,” Mokdad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we do the right things like increasing production of the vaccine, he says, it’s possible we eventually won’t have to worry about COVID-19 anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What the End of the Crisis Might Look Like in the U.S.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Goldman sees two possible scenarios for the U.S. in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is that the virus evolves to more readily evade the vaccines that have been administered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that happens, she says, “then we’ll have to go into a whole other round of re-vaccinating everybody.” Drugmakers are already working on booster shots in case they become necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the current vaccines could continue to be highly effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that case, Goldman believes that within the next several months “we’ll see \u003cem>near\u003c/em> elimination of the pandemic, certainly in the United States and Europe, other wealthy countries, Japan, Taiwan,” while efforts will continue to immunize people in the rest of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s very likely, Goldman says, that even when we can say the pandemic is over, transmission will continue in parts of the country that have low rates of vaccination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one thing is clear: No matter what happens, the effects of the pandemic — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/22/996533041/after-months-of-a-racing-heart-and-burning-feet-a-covid-long-hauler-gets-a-diagn\">long-term physical\u003c/a> and mental health issues, and economic fallout — won’t end when the official emergency does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+We%27ll+Know+When+The+COVID-19+Crisis+Is+Over&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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