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Alaska health commissioner announces COVID emergency order will end in July - Alaska Public Media

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Health commissioner Adam Crum will rescind Alaska’s public health emergency order for COVID-19 on July 1. “What’s changing for the average Alaskan is nothing,' he said. 'Most folks actually probably don’t even understand that we still have this in place.”

Adam Crum, Commissioner of Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services, answers a question during a 2019 press conference. Crum was named in a class action lawsuit after Alaska Medicaid refused to cover costs related to hormone treatment in 2019.

During a press conference Monday, Crum said the department has been working to make sure any COVID-specific tools and systems Alaskans still need are now permanent or sustainable. The state Legislature granted the public health commissioner the authority to declare an emergency order in 2021. Crum’s emergency order would have expired with any federal emergency order unless he rescinded it earlier. The federal public health emergency runs through July 15 but is anticipated to be extended through this fall.

 

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