In 2020 and 2021, Covid-19 was the third most common cause of death, federal records show, after heart disease and cancer.Credit...Isadora Kosofsky for The New York Times
By Julie Bosman, The New York Times, May 11, 2023
Shannon Cummings, 53, has tried to push forward after her husband, Larry, a college professor, died of Covid-19 in March 2020.
She flew from her home in Michigan to Southern California to attend a Harry Styles concert with family members and friends. Twice a week, she meets with her group therapy classes. She started going out to lunch in public again, a step that took her years.
“We lost over a million people in the pandemic,” she said. “It doesn’t honor any of them to not live my life.”
Yet she is still grappling with the milestone the nation will mark on Thursday: something of an official end of the pandemic, as the Biden administration will allow the three-year-old coronavirus public health emergency — and a separate declaration of a national emergency — to expire.
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