The COVID-19 emergency is officially ending. What does that mean for you?

President Biden has signed a GOP-authored bill declaring an end to the COVID-19 national emergency, and the president is eliminating certain vaccine requirements beginning Friday, as the World Health Organization declares an end to the global pandemic emergency. 

The White House is winding down its COVID-19 response team, and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has declared the public health emergency will end on Friday.

"Obviously, we're in a different place now than we were two and a half years ago when the president came into office, right?" White House COVID-19 Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said in a briefing with reporters Tuesday. "Hospitalizations and deaths are down by well over 90%. And the secretary made a decision to end the public health emergency because we are in a much better place."