California's COVID State of Emergency Will Expire Next Week. What's Next?

California’s COVID state of emergency will expire next week, three years after it was the first state in the nation to lock down in March 2020.

But some medical experts caution that this change may cause a bit of confusion.

“There are four groups of people I think. There are people with private insurance, people on Medicare, people on medical and people who have no insurance,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, UCSF infectious disease physician.

Those that fall into the no insurance group, may fall between the cracks when it comes to getting free or low cost care, COVID testing and vaccinations. 

“Depending on where you live, people in many

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