<p>Americans are done with the pandemic, even though COVID-19 doesn&#8217;t appear to be done with them.</p>
<p>Two years after the first case of the virus hit U.S. shores, Americans tired of mask mandates and repeated jabs are just moving on with their lives.</p>
<p>&#8220;The vaccination drive in the U.S. is grinding to a halt, and demand has all but collapsed,&#8221; the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-us-news-alabama-4c0026679a346ea83a6a04f475a518ef">reported</a> Thursday.</p>
<p>&#8220;The average number of Americans getting their first shot is down to about 90,000 a day, the lowest point since the first few days of the U.S. vaccination campaign, in December 2020. And hopes of any substantial improvement in the immediate future have largely evaporated,&#8221; the AP wrote.</p>
<p>Going maskless is now in vogue, even as COVID-19 cases continue to land thousands of Americans in the hospital. “People are just over it. They’re tired of it,” Judy Smith, administrator for a 12-county public health district in northwestern Alabama, told the wire service.</p>
<p>For example, actor Ben Stiller told Howard Stern on his Wednesday satellite radio show that he felt &#8220;peer pressure&#8221; to not wear a mask while at a recent NBA basketball game in New York. Stiller said he came down with COVID-19 two days later.</p>
<p>COVID-19 is now in its fourth iteration. The media repeatedly painted the Omicron strain as less dangerous, perhaps prompting people to be more cavalier.</p>
<p>“People heard more stories about, well, the Omicron’s not that bad,” Kathy Emmons, executive director of a health department in Wyoming, told the AP. “I think a lot of people just kind of rolled the dice and decided, ‘Well, if it’s not that bad, I’m just going to kind of wait it out and see what happens.’”</p>
<p>The news comes as experts debate whether to advise a fourth shot to be considered &#8220;fully vaccinated.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;As the world approaches the second anniversary of the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organization, on March 11, more nations are rolling out &#8212; or are discussing the possibility of &#8212; fourth doses of coronavirus vaccine for their most vulnerable,&#8221; CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/19/health/fourth-covid-19-vaccine-dose-us/index.html">reported</a>, noting that a recommendation could come as soon as fall.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now, the US Food and Drug Administration &#8216;is indeed continually looking at the emerging data on the pandemic and variants in the United States and overseas in order to evaluate the potential utility and composition of booster doses,&#8217; FDA spokesperson Alison Hunt wrote in an email to CNN on Friday,&#8221; the network reported.</p>
<p>“As more data become available about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, including the use of a booster dose, we will continue to evaluate the rapidly changing science and keep the public informed,&#8221; Hunt added. “Any determination that additional booster doses are needed will be based on data available to the agency.”</p>
<p>But other experts say a fourth shot may not be needed for months – or years.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you recently got a booster shot to protect against COVID-19, you may not need another for several months, or even several years, new studies suggest,&#8221; Business Insider <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/studies-covid-19-booster-may-not-be-needed-for-years-2022-2">reported</a> on Tuesday.</p>
<p>&#8220;According to one study released earlier this week and reported on by Apoorva Mandavilli for The New York Times, receiving three mRNA vaccinations from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna helps the body create a wide array of antibodies that are especially effective in not only preventing death and severe illness, but also in protecting against variants,&#8221; the outlet added.</p>
<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.</em></p>

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