Beyond the COVID-19 emergency: Sustaining and expanding vaccine equity

Across the nation, federal, state and county government agencies are moving Covid-19 management and treatment into the U.S. healthcare system as part of their transition from pandemic response to recovery. The national Covid-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) will end in 2023, and so will key drivers of more equitable outcomes that were enabled by the PHE and other emergency measures, such as free vaccinations, free tests and free therapeutics. (author introduction)