The COVID-19 pandemic is over. On May 5, The World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 was no longer a public health emergency. The U.S. followed suit on May 11, allowing the public health emergency declaration to expire. The pandemic did not end because of vaccination efforts nor from acquired herd immunity. The pandemic is over because
Our institutions have given up on the COVID-19 pandemic. We should not. originally appeared in KevinMD.com.