A new normal? 6 stories about the evolving U.S. COVID response in 2023
This was the year a lot people finally exhaled. The pandemic was declared no longer an emergency. But viral threats are still with us and there are lessons we still haven't learned.
In spring 2023, COVID hospitalizations and deaths hit their lowest levels since the start of the pandemic. Masks came off and schools and some workplaces were back in person. The nation emerged from the three-year COVID nightmare – and entered a tentative, new normal.
And with the official end of the in May, the U.S. health care system reverted to the way it usually works: People's health insurance, or.
