My DH had an MRI last week and I was allowed in the waiting room, but I had to wear a hospital-provided yellow mask, cloth masks were no longer permitted. Security guard said the masks would be required for a long, long time.
Those yellow masks really don’t let the air in, I had to keep pulling it below my nose so I could breathe. 😀
The time frame on this breathless announcement looks pretty easy. July 2020 was the post virus arrival in the Northeast low through the summer. Winter was the first big smash pre vax.
Then summer 2021 had vaxed people facing very few virus particles, because that seems to be it’s behavior in summer.
Come Delta in late August and Sept, the early vax had worn off and the scythe killed a lot of oldsters. That surge faded but not much because Omicron arrived and vax was even older by then. Lots died.
We’re on decline now, till the next surge. Two years and we still have NOTHING better than two years ago to stop this. 25% more old people died last year than in a typical pre Covid year. This is starting to eat into life expectancy.