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Thursday

Wednesday

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

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The pandemic-era rule that lets you get telehealth prescriptions just got extended

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Monday

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

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Friday

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

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Wednesday

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

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Tuesday

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

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NIAID via AP

How Monkeypox Became A Public Health Emergency

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Thursday

Wednesday