Emboldened by the government’s recent lifting of the public health emergency, Americans who have tried to be rule-following pandemic citizens for the past three summers are at last abandoning precautions as the coronavirus fades into a background threat.
“We are in a relatively good spot,” said Brendan Jackson, the CDC’s incident manager for its covid-19 response.in May that covid-19 is over, compared with 47 percent who felt that way in February, according to the most recentMore than half now say they never mask in public, and the share of respondents who said they always or sometimes mask dropped from 30 percent in February to 23 percent in May.
felt ostracized wearing a mask to protect her 89-year-old terminally ill father, who she cares for at an independent living facility in Sarasota, Fla., where no one else masks — not even her father. wear an N95 mask on the plane, skip indoor restaurants and pack coronavirus tests and the antiviral treatment Paxlovid in her suitcase.“I think that it’s just a way of life now that we have to live with, like the flu and anything else,” said Moran, 48, who lives in West Hollywood.Inside hospitals, medical professionals are also seeing a virus that has faded into the background.
The virus finally tore through Sarah Ferrario’s suburban D.C. household after her family attended a wedding in Italy in early June. Ferrario, her husband and their 8-year-old daughter tested positive for the first time; their 12-year-old son became infected for the second time. They had been sticking with precautions longer than other people they know: The kids masked in school until March, and the parents still are masking at their college teaching jobs.
just 17 percent of all Americans — and 43 percent of those 65 and older — had received the shots as ofThe booster rates are lowest in children 5 and under — 18 percent — and their parents are having a hard time finding shots. In Minneapolis, the Moon Palace book store is one of the rare businesses to maintain a mask mandate. Owner Angela Schwesnedl
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