It’s official, the three-year-long national COVID emergency is over, the President signed a bill ending the National Covid Emergency Declaration. This means many Americans will start paying for treatments and vaccines they previously received at no charge, and certain Medicare and Medicaid waivers will end. Uncle Sam will stop distributing free COVID tests and your health insurance may no longer cover those lab tests and if you don t have insurance, a covid vaccine could cost more than 100 dollars a shot.