On Monday, April 10, President Joe Biden signed a bill that immediately terminated the COVID-19 national emergency, first enacted in 2020 as the SARS-CoV-2 virus gripped the country. So does this mean the pandemic is finally, officially over?
Though COVID still makes occasional headlines, some (but not all) Americans have been living life as though the virus has ceased to exist. Wearing a mask in public is no longer the norm save for certain professional settings; relatively few people got the most recent bivalent vaccine; and contracting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, is now typically seen as more of an inconvenience than a life-threatening illness.
