In the USA, at least, according to the CDC, cases, deaths per week, and hospitalizations are the lowest it's been since the pandemic began.<p>In early 2022, when at-home testing kits availability became widespread, I was a bit worried that we'd see COVID cases being under reported, since people doing a test at home likely wouldn't get tracked in the statistics. You can sort of see evidence of it as the number of reported COVID cases in May/June/July flattened out, yet hospitalizations continued to rise, though deaths was almost flat.<p>The simple fact is, COVID, like the flu, will never go away. But it's followed the trend viruses tend to do: becoming less severe so they don't kill their host before they can spread it.