One week from today, San Francisco's COVID-19 public health emergency order is coming to an end. It's the same day California's COVID-19 state of emergency is expiring.
While public health officials are ready for the COVID-19 emergency declaration to end, others are raising concerns for the future of the virus.. It's the same day California's COVID-19 state of emergency is expiring.
Harris is young, healthy and said she had no underlying health conditions when she contracted the virus last June. She said she never expected she would experience long COVID. But now eight months later, she is still dealing with the impacts. Her symptoms include extreme fatigue and tiredness, bad muscle aches and gastrointestinal issues. She said she had to drop out of graduate school and move back home with her parents. She has not been able to work.
"Even if an emergency ends, there is still a crisis," said Kristin Urquiza, who co-founded the group, Marked by Covid. "We are about to lose a ton of protections that have been keeping San Franciscans afloat."Urquiza, who lost her father to COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic in 2020, is concerned the most vulnerable San Franciscans could lose certain protections around housing, sick leave, medical care and food benefits.
UCSF infectious disease specialist Dr. Monica Gandhi said the end of the public health emergency does not mean the end of COVID-19. She said the term "emergency" refers to hospitals being overwhelmed."How we measure the phrase emergency is around severe disease, and so it's really the hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths that define an emergency. That made us shut down society to ensure that our health care systems are protected," Gandhi said.
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