The End of a Pandemic

There's no formal law or process for declaring a pandemic over. Covid is likely to be around for the rest of our lives as an endemic virus. Thanks to vaccines and better treatments like paxlovid, it's not killing nearly as many people. Fewer people are dying from covid globally now than at any time since march 20 20. But there is reason for hope. As the o director general said in a recent press briefing, we are not there yet, but the end is in sight.