But it is not an emergency situation. Maybe he is actually listening to South Africa.
I have read similar things as well. It makes sense as it is normal for viruses to mutate into less deadly/severe strains as time goes by watch infects more people who have minor symptoms but develop antibodies and eventually it runs out of hosts. If we had not locked down and done all these draconian mandates for so long we would not have prolong this pandemic by probably a year or so.
Just look at Florida as an example in many of the other southern states. They have very few mandates and are in a much better spot now and have been since early this year For the most part.