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Final state emergencies winding down 3 years into pandemic

FILE - Gov. Gavin Newsom announces the next phase of California's COVID-19 response called "SMARTER," during a press conference in Fontana, Calif. on Feb. 17, 2022. California's COVID-19 emergency declaration ends on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Gov. Newsom first issued the emergency declaration on March 4, 2020. (Watchara Phomicinda/The Orange County Register via AP, File) FILE - Finn Washburn, 9, receives an injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in San Jose, Calif., on Nov. 3, 2021, as his sister, Piper Washburn, 6, waits her turn. California's COVID-19 emergency declaration ends on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Public health experts say the pandemic has not ended, but the virus is much more manageable with the availability of vaccines and other treatments. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) FILE - A shopper walks past mannequins donning face masks in Los Angeles, on Dec. 7, 2020. California's COVID-19 emergency declaration ends on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Public health experts say the pandemic has not ended, but the virus is much more manageable with the availability of vaccines and other treatments. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) Emergency medical workers Jacob Magoon, from left, Joshua Hammond and Thomas Hoang lift a patient onto a gurney in Placentia, Calif., on Jan. 9, 2021. California's COVID-19 emergency declaration ends on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Gov. Gavin Newsom first issued the emergency declaration on March 4, 2020. The emergency ends just as California officially passed 100,000 COVID-related deaths during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) FILE - Two nurses put a ventilator on a patient in a COVID-19 unit at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif. Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. California's COVID-19 emergency declaration ends on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Gov. Gavin Newsom first issued the emergency declaration on March 4, 2020. The emergency ends just as California officially passed 100,000 COVID-related deaths during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Final state emergencies winding down 3 years into pandemic