The U.S. Department of Labor has announced the termination of its COVID-19 healthcare rulemaking, which was overseen by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Initially, on June 21, 2021, OSHA issued an Emergency Temporary Standard aimed at protecting workers in healthcare settings from COVID-19. This standard also functioned as a proposed rule for which OSHA sought public feedback through various comment periods and public hearings between June 2021 and May 2022.

OSHA had submitted a draft final version of this COVID-19 rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget on December 7, 2022. However, developments since then have led to changes in approach. On April 10, 2023, President Biden signed House Joint Resolution 7 into law, effectively ending the national emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Following these events, OSHA decided that "the most effective and efficient use of agency resources to protect healthcare workers from occupational exposure to COVID-19" is to concentrate efforts on completing an Infectious Diseases rulemaking for healthcare instead.