After three years, the COVID-19 pandemic health emergency is over effective tomorrow. Both President Biden and Governor Maura Healey made the declarations earlier this year. But what does it mean in terms of the future of the virus?
What we do know is that the impact of COVID in Fall River is minimal. The latest numbers reported last week by the state show that only two new cases of COVID were reported in Fall River last week, 35,151 in total since March 2020. In the winter of 2021-2022, those numbers were over two thousand cases a week. Vaccination rates have remained level for quite some time.
Tess Curran, Director of Health and Human Services for the City of Fall River says the only change residents can expect from the end of the COVID health emergency may take place in hospitals and doctor’s offices.
Ms. Curran says the three years of the pandemic were a learning experience for everyone working in public health.
Even though the COVID health emergency is over, the threat of illness remains.
Ms. Curran says she is unsure how COVID boosters will be handled in the coming winter but those who meet certain criteria can get a second bivalent booster now.
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