Cases are relatively low deaths are relatively low.” Robert Wachter, the chair of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. “We’ve reached a stage of stability where people are making choices to return their lives to something closer to normal,” said Dr. Spring reprieveĮxperts agree that the risk from Covid-19 right now is low, and spring 2023 feels different from previous years. Is this finally the beginning of the end of the pandemic, or just another spring ebb before a new variant initiates a summer wave? (For the past two years, numbers have fallen between March and June, before rising in July.) The New York Times spoke with epidemiologists and infectious disease experts to gauge how they’re thinking about this particular juncture in the pandemic - what the risk is right now, what precautions they’re continuing to take, who is still getting severely ill and dying, and what the future may bring. The coronavirus public health emergency in the United States will expire on May 11. On May 5, the World Health Organization announced that the Covid-19 global health emergency was over. Case rates have similarly plummeted, though infections have become harder to track because of the widespread availability of at-home rapid tests many of the monitoring systems that were set up at the beginning of the pandemic have also been wound down.

Deaths from Covid-19 in the United States are the lowest they’ve been since March 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s data tracker.

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