After the Supreme Court clipped the White House’s wings over a proposed vaccine mandate from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for workers of large companies, the Biden administration mostly changed course on restrictive COVID-19 regulations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention loosened up on masks on Feb. 25. Heavily locked-down states such as those on the West Coast and Hawaii gradually announced that they would follow suit. Their central city bureaucracies announced a gradual stand-down as well.