The COVID emergency is over. Get back to life

Published December 19, 2021 12:00am ET



We have done it.

It took two years, but the world now has both vaccines against and treatments for the coronavirus infection. Already, the coronavirus is far less deadly than it was at the beginning of the pandemic. But between vaccination, monoclonal antibodies, and Pfizer’s new pill Paxlovid, the threat posed by COVID-19 has diminished to the point of being manageable.

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