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The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency may not end Jan. 11 as planned because the government has not given the 60-day notice it promised stakeholders. That would mean the COVID-19 emergency, which began in January 2020, will last until at least April. The declaration enables the federal government to pay for waivers and policies for Medicaid coverage, telehealth coverage, COVID-19 testing, vaccines and antiviral treatments and when it expires, treatment and testing costs will fall back on patients and insurance companies.

Paxlovid will no longer be free when the public health emergency ends. Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government.

Vaccine hesitancy is connected to measles and chickenpox outbreaks. Columbus, Ohio, has recorded 82 measles cases since the end of November, and 32 of those patients were hospitalized. Most of the cases involved children under age 2. None of the infected people had been fully vaccinated. The latest polling finds that adults are less likely to support routine childhood vaccines that have, for years, proven to be effective in preventing infections.

There are some intriguing new laws being proposed around the world. Among them: Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, will be banned in the Netherlands, and Canada will enact a two-year ban on foreigners buying residential real estate.

LED lightbulbs might soon be the only option in the United States. The Biden administration is pushing a plan that would phase out incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs and require bulbs of the future to double their current energy efficiency. The Department of Energy says LED bulbs generally last three to five times longer than compact fluorescent bulbs last and 30 times longer than incandescent bulbs.

The TSA discovered a record number of firearms in 2022. It stopped more than 6,300 weapons from clearing airport security this year. And that was before the Christmas travel week.
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