An electron microscopic image of mpox virus particles. The mpox emergency of last summer is over. Was it a passing threat? Or is there reason to believe another global outbreak could happen. Smith Collection/Gado/Gado via Getty Images hide caption
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Miguel Lerma, right, with his grandparents who raised him, Jose and Virginia Aldaco. Miguel Lerma hide caption
Facing public pressure, federal regulators have decided to let patients receive prescriptions for controlled substances via telehealth for at least another six months. d3sign/Getty Images hide caption
The pandemic-era rule that lets you get telehealth prescriptions just got extended
The U.S. public health emergency declaration helped marshal resources during the worst of the COVID-19 crisis, when the virus was spreading rampantly. This week, the declaring expires. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
On Friday, World Health Organization director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated: "With great hope, I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency." Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Khloe Tinker, 5, is measured ahead of an appointment at the Doniphan Family Clinic in Doniphan, Missouri. The clinic is the only source for specialized pediatric care in its rural Ozark county. Sebastián Martínez Valdivia/KBIA hide caption
Why pediatricians are worried about the end of the federal COVID emergency
This iamge provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (orange) found within an infected cell (brown), cultured in the laboratory. NIAID via AP hide caption
An emergency declaration frees up resources to help fight the monkeypox outbreak. There are currently more than 6,600 cases in the U.S. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
A man wearing a face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus walks past a health campaign poster in the Westminster underground train station, in London. Matt Dunham/AP hide caption