Mixed Emotions and Lingering Threats: Navigating Life After the End of Covid Emergency.

The Biden administration will allow the three-year-old coronavirus public health emergency to expire, marking an official end to the pandemic. While vaccines are effective and widely available, testing is easily accessible, and treatments have vastly improved since the beginning of the pandemic, the move has landed with mixed emotions for many Americans who have lost family members and friends to the pandemic. Some worry that the pandemic is being politicized once again, while others see it as a welcome acknowledgment that the country is in a different place from where it was before. The end of the emergency declaration could result in new costs for coronavirus testing, and some feel that the country remains unprepared for a future pandemic.