Two years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, changing the world overnight, relief and hope are creeping back in after a long, dark period of loss, fear and deep uncertainty about the future.
Hospitalizations of people with COVID-19 have plummeted 80% in the last six weeks across the U.S. since a mid-January pandemic peak, dropping to the lowest levels since July 2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nowhere is the shift in the pandemic more apparent than in the nation’s hospitals, where critical care units were overflowing with desperately ill patients just months ago. “It’s hard to use the word ‘normal,’ because I don’t think we will ever get back to a pre-COVID state. We are adapting, and we are moving forward,” Kim said. “This has had a toll on many of us. Some people are moving forward, and some people are still having a hard time dealing with it all.”
In Portland, people are heading back to movie theaters, concerts and gyms after a long, dark winter, and bars and restaurants are filling up once more. Safrin said many customers are telling her it’s their first time dining inside in months. Infections raced out of control for weeks and some days the line of cars at the Dodger Stadium test site, one of the largest in the nation, stretched for nearly two miles.
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