The White House will hold a coronavirus briefing on Wednesday after a six-week hiatus, as caseloads and hospitalizations climb around the country and the Biden administration signaled that it would extend its declaration of Covid-19 as a public health emergency.The briefing — scheduled for 10:45 a.m. Eastern — will be the first formal on-camera session led by President Biden’s new coronavirus response coordinator, Dr. Ashish K. Jha.Dr. Jha has spent much of his first month in office trying to persuade Congress to authorize billions of dollars in new emergency aid for the pandemic response, but the administration’s request is stalled on Capitol Hill.A senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to preview Wednesday’s coronavirus briefing, said Dr. Jha would again call on Congress to release the funding, and would warn that the nation was seeing a “significant increase” in infections — a sign that Covid is not over. On Monday, the administration quietly let pass a deadline for lifting the public health emergency, which has allowed the government to take steps like offering Americans free Covid-19 vaccines, tests and treatments; barring states from canceling people’s Medicaid coverage; and expanding access to telehealth appointments. It has also allowed hospitals to get paid more for treating Medicare patients who have Covid. The public health emergency was set to expire on July 15, but the administration promised to give states and health providers 60 days’ notice before lifting it. That deadline passed Monday with no such notification. Public health experts and hospital officials praised the extension. “We’re seeing rising cases and hospitalizations and testing positivity rates; now is not the time to end these flexibilities that allow great access to care,” said Ashley Thompson, senior vice president for policy development at the American Hospital Association. “We are not out of the woods yet.”The Biden administration is bracing for a surge of cases that some experts say could mirror the wave in December and January, after the highly contagious Omicron variant emerged. At the peak of that surge, the nation was recording an average of more than 800,000 new infections a day, and experts believe many more cases were not reported.The big unanswered question, experts say, is whether the rise in cases that is already well underway will be followed by a rise in hospitalizations and deaths. According to a database maintained by The New York Times, the daily average of new coronavirus infections reported in the United States has surpassed 100,000 for the first time since Feb. 20. That figure is up 61 percent from two weeks ago.window.registerInteractive && window.registerInteractive("100000007751482");{"css":["https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/coronavirus-tracking/_app/assets/pages/__layout.svelte-3cb78d81.css","https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/coronavirus-tracking/_app/assets/NewsletterSubscription.svelte_svelte_type_style_lang-6338a86d.css","https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/coronavirus-tracking/_app/assets/index-7857a851.css","https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/coronavirus-tracking/_app/assets/index-c54d3c5d.css","https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/coronavirus-tracking/_app/assets/pages/embeds/_id_-covid-chart/index.html.svelte-eda480af.css","https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/coronavirus-tracking/_app/assets/index-a3a84aae.css","https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/coronavirus-tracking/_app/assets/AxisY-8553a868.css","https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/coronavirus-tracking/_app/assets/index-177932f8.css"],"images":[]}United States Coronavirus CasesNew reported cases by dayAll timeLast 90 daysFeb. 2020Jul.Dec.May 2021Oct.Mar. 2022200,000>400,000>600,000>800,000 cases>7–day average100,732These are days with a reporting anomaly.
Source: State and local health agencies. Daily cases are the number of new cases reported each day. The seven-day average is the average of the most recent seven days of data.
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Title: The White House virus briefings return.
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Published Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 08:52:22 +0000
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