On April 10, 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a resolution officially terminating the Covid-19 national emergency in the United States. The public health emergency ended 1 month later. In September 2022, Biden had stated that “the pandemic is over,” when during that month, there were more than 10,000 deaths involving Covid-19 nationwide. [The New England Journal of Medicine]

The United States is, of course, not the only country to have made such pronouncements. Several European countries declared an end to the emergency associated with the pandemic in 2022, lifting restrictions and starting to manage Covid-19 more like influenza. What insights can be derived from past declarations of this sort?

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