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What the end of the emergency declaration means for Marked By COVID co-founder Kristin Urquiza

On Monday, President Joe Biden signed a resolution to end the coronavirus national emergency.

Biden sided with House Republicans, as they passed the measure on Capitol Hill with the vast majority of Democrats opposed to ending the emergency declaration. While numbers are declining, the nation is still seeing hundreds of thousands of new cases and a few thousand deaths every week.

Kristin Urquiza’s father died from the coronavirus, and she later co-founded the nonprofit group Marked By COVID.

Urquiza joined The Show to talk about the ending of this national emergency and what it might mean going forward. 

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Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.