25 Governors Urge Biden to End COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu speaks onstage during the 2022 Concordia Lexington Summit—Day 1 at Lexington Marriott City Center, in Lexington, Ky., on April 7, 2022. Jon Cherry/Getty Images for Concordia

Twenty-five governors are urging President Joe Biden to end the COVID-19 public health emergency, which has remained in place despite a drop in COVID-19 metrics and the emergence of less virulent variants.

The governors say the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic is and has been over for some time, noting that Biden himself said in September that “the pandemic is over.”