INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Governor Eric Holcomb is considering ending the state’s public health emergency, which has been in place since the early days of the pandemic in March 2020.
He recently extended the order for November but has suggested he will scale down his order COVID-related orders in the coming months.
“When extending the last state public health emergency for another 30 days, I asked my team to bring me a plan that would allow us to wind it down responsibly,” Holcomb said in a written statement. “They have presented me a plan that identifies three key items that must be preserved if I am to responsibly allow the state public health emergency to expire.”
Holcomb says those three things that must be done are allowing the continuation of enhanced matching funds for Medicaid expenditures; allowing the continuance of benefits for Hoosiers receiving federal food assistance, and extending the ability to efficiently vaccinate children between the ages five and eleven.
