DHS Details End of Emergency COVID-19 Response

DHS Details End of Emergency COVID-19 ResponseThe federal government has announced the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency will end May 11. In Wisconsin, case numbers, hospitalizations, and deaths from COVID-19 are significantly lower than they were during the surge in late 2021 and early 2022, and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has been making plans to move away from an emergency response to the virus. The federal public health emergency has been in place since early 2020, and it gave federal and state governments…

Elizabeth.Goodsitt

April 21, 2023

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