{"id":3590,"date":"2023-05-16T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2023-05-16T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T00:00:10","slug":"families-of-those-lost-to-covid-wrestle-with-mixed-emotions-as-emergency-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/05\/16\/families-of-those-lost-to-covid-wrestle-with-mixed-emotions-as-emergency-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of Those Lost to Covid Wrestle With Mixed Emotions as Emergency Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p id=\"article-summary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/11\/us\/covid-deaths-pandemic.html\">NYT<\/a> More than 1.1 million Americans have died of Covid. An official end to the health emergency has landed in complicated ways for those affected most acutely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shannon Cummings, 53, has tried to push forward after her husband, Larry, a college professor,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/21\/us\/coronavirus-deaths-us-half-a-million.html\">died<\/a>&nbsp;of Covid-19 in March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe lost over a million people in the pandemic,\u201d she said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t honor any of them to not live my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet she is still grappling with the milestone the nation will mark on Thursday:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/10\/us\/politics\/covid-public-health-emergency.html?searchResultPosition=2\">something of an official end of the pandemic<\/a>, as the Biden administration will allow the three-year-old coronavirus public health emergency \u2014 and a separate declaration of a national emergency \u2014 to expire. \u201cI feel like some people never really embraced that there was an emergency going on,\u201d Ms. Cummings said. \u201cIt\u2019s really hurtful to those of us who have actually experienced a loss from this.\u201d The end of the coronavirus public health emergency in the United States comes at a point when vaccines are effective and widely available, testing is easily accessible and treatments have vastly improved since the beginning of the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 1.1 million Americans have died of Covid, and the rate of death has markedly slowed in recent months. In 2020 and 2021, it was the third most common cause of death; by this point in 2023, preliminary data show, it has dropped to seventh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the move by the Biden administration that takes effect on Thursday has landed with mixed emotions for many Americans who have lost family members and friends to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT More than 1.1 million Americans have died of Covid. An official end to the health emergency has landed in complicated ways for those affected most acutely. Shannon Cummings, 53, has tried to push forward after her husband, Larry, a college professor,&nbsp;died&nbsp;of Covid-19 in March 2020. 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