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The COVID-19 pandemic ended in April 2024. The virus officially became an endemic virus. The pandemic ended because many people stopped dying and it was no longer a leading cause of death. The COVID-19 virus causes most people to have mild or cold-like symptoms, many have moderate symptoms like they do for the flu, and some even have severe symptoms. However, very few died and it is less common to have severe symptoms than it was before. Most people with mild to moderate symptoms do not get long-COVID. The people that are at risk of dying or having severe symptoms are very immunocompromised people or the elderly, but even most elderly people still survive and most of them have mild to moderate symptoms. COVID-19 is seasonal. COVID-19 now occurs high and has waves in the fall and winter, and goes downhill in spring and summer and waits to come back again in fall and winter. You can still get COVID-19 in the spring and summer, but it is not very common. You may hear people year-round complaining they have the flu or COVID-19, but you should no longer expect to get COVID-19 in spring or summer. However, COVID-19 and the flu are not common in spring or summer, but it is not rare. COVID-19 has mutated so much since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and has gotten slowly overtime more mild. This is due to people getting herd immunity and natural immunity to COVID-19. This stopped infections killing people as much and the newer variants have become more contagious than they were before, but are more mild and less damaging to our immune systems and for long-COVID or death. Hundreds of people in the world are still dying from COVID-19, but comparing the number of infections this number does seem mild. This number is fewer than the deaths of car crashes now, thankfully. COVID-19 is here to stay and is not leaving. This marks the virus as endemic. We have already had four endemic coronaviruses, and this is our fifth endemic coronavirus that we are just going to have to deal with. We may expect more pandemics and even coronaviruses in the future, but we are in an endemic for now. The COVID-19 pandemic was expected at the start of the pandemic for the virus to be eradicated, but at least it is a seasonal thing and less severe. There were many reasons why COVID-19 was never eradicated. Most people are now living regular pre-COVID lives like they were and it is happening again. There are many variants of COVID-19 and it is hard to stop and it is already in animals and that means it is hard if not impossible to eradicate now. The number of people that test positive for an infection are lower than they were before, but that is because COVID-19 tests do not work as well. Sadly this is true, but you can always use a COVID-19 test at your doctor's office or pharmacy. The good news is that COVID-19 is usually mild and will not require a test and you will have the virus without knowing it or needing a test. The COVID-19 pandemic has officially ended and became endemic in April 2024. This is good news for the world!