Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and that the SARS-CoV-2 virus will keep mutating. Despite both the White House and the World Health Organization recently declaring an end to the public health emergencies characterizing the last three years of the pandemic, the pathogen responsible for COVID continues to circulate, still daily infecting large numbers of people, sometimes hospitalizing and killing them or giving them long-lasting symptoms.
In the U.S., 1,100 people died from COVID the week ending May 3, so even though recent stats suggest COVID deaths dropped in 2022. Still, the disease ranks fourth among the leading causes of death in the U.S., meaning it is still killing a very high number of Americans.
