At the moment, the U.S. is recording about 50,000 COVID cases and roughly 300 deaths per day. Those figures represent a major drop-off from the peak of the Omicron wave in mid-January, when 800,000 new cases and about 2,500 deaths were counted each day.
“For a pandemic-weary public, there are cautions to be heeded. No one knows when or whether another variant of the virus will emerge, either more transmissible or more severe. It could still happen. … Elsewhere in the world, the pandemic is hardly over. China is battling a major outbreak; many poor countries are yet to be vaccinated. The ‘acute’ phase might be easing in the United States, but the virus has not vanished.” — Editorial,“The SARS-CoV-2 virus has surprised us again and again.
“People have absorbed their personal risk calculations and simply decided that they will return more to a so-called normal life, even as the virus continues to claim lives. We seem, as a society, to have become resigned to the virus, accepting a certain level of sickness and death as the new normal.” — Charles M.
“Instead of debating terminology like ‘pandemic,’ ‘endemic,’ ‘full-blown’ or ‘controlled,’ we need to focus on promoting vaccination and other actions we know will help control the spread of the virus. That includes communicating honestly about what we do and don’t know and telling Americans what they need to know in language they can understand.” — Brian Castrucci and Beth S.
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