Learning to live with COVID-19: World attempts make the virus a manageable nuisance

U.S. and global leaders see 2022 as a transition year in the COVID-19 fight as they look to pivot from the hair-on-fire “pandemic” phase to an endemic chapter in which the virus is always around but managed like seasonal influenza.

Federal officials are desperately trying to tamp down the omicron crisis that is leading to record hospitalizations. But the crushing wave should peak at some point in January and February and recede, forcing the country to grapple with how to get on with life as COVID-19 lurks in the background....