It’s been over 500 days since people were told to make sacrifices to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

The self-imposed and state-mandated decrees came at an incalculable cost. Children lost a year of in-person classes, deaths from addiction and despair spiked, small businesses shuttered — with some closing forever. Countless people said their final goodbyes to loved ones over Zoom calls, watching them die alone.