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    What you need to know to stay safe from COVID after the public health emergency ends

    Ready or not, it's over. The country's public health emergency touched off in January 2020 by the sudden appearance of a novel coronavirus formally enters the history books when the day ends Thursday. It's not a cause for jubilation, considering that the pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 1.1 million Americans. Nor should we feel triumphant, since the virus that causes COVID-19 is ...
    by Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times May 11, 2023 9 minutes
    A person wearing a protective mask walks by a Bloomingdale's window display featuring a mannequin wearing a mask as the city moves into Phase 2 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic on June 22, 2020, in New York City.

    Ready or not, it's over.

    The country's public health emergency touched off in January 2020 by the sudden appearance of a novel coronavirus formally enters the history books when the day ends Thursday.

    It's not a cause for jubilation, considering that the pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 1.1 million Americans.

    Nor should we feel triumphant, since the virus that causes COVID-19 is here to stay. Even in a form tamed by vaccine and tempered by mutation, it still killed 4,719 in the United States over the last month.

    And for some time to come, humans will be grappling with the fallout from the social isolation, economic dislocation and political upheaval brought on by a virus that measures 10 nanometers in diameter and spreads through the air with the stealth of a ninja.

    Almost every state, territory and tribal entity in the country has declared their health crisis over, and they've rescinded most of the special powers granted to local health departments during the pandemic.

    Americans generally seem fine with that. A Gallup Poll released in March found that 49% think the pandemic is "over" in the U.S. — a high-water mark since Gallup started tracking that sentiment in the summer of 2021. And roughly three-quarters of those surveyed by KFF that same month said they believe the public health emergency's end will either have a "positive impact" (27%) or "no impact" (46%) on the country overall.

    Not everyone is welcoming Thursday's milestone. The doctors, scholars and public health advocates who call themselves say the real Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has abdicated its responsibility

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