LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – With the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency declaration on May 11th, there are not very many people left wearing masks and running out to get vaccine boosters. It’s been easy to go about our lives now for quite some time without even giving COVID-19 a second thought. A recent Harvard Caps Harris Poll showed that when 2,090 registered voters were surveyed about the most important issues facing the country today, only 5% said “coronavirus.”

MORE NEWS: Middle East Expert: Americans ‘Lulled’ Into False Sense of Security on Terrorism

This is in sharp contrast to when Michiganders were in the middle of the pandemic, scared to go anywhere and trying to live under the many executive orders that Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer released.

Gone are the plexiglass sheets that divided us from the cashiers, the “closed” signs, arrows on floors telling us which direction to walk, and posters to tell us to stand apart from each other.

But COVID-19 is not completely gone and it may never be.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there have been 286,078 cases in the last seven days, with almost 768 million confirmed cumulative cases worldwide and almost 7 million cumulative deaths. In the United States, there have been more than 103 million confirmed cases and over 1.1 million deaths since the pandemic began.

Of those deaths in the United States, 93.4% were patients who were 50-years-old and older, 75.6% were patients aged 65-years-old and older and 53.1% were patients aged 75-years-old and older.

As of June 13th, Michigan has had 3,114,885 COVID-19 cases (2,659,701 confirmed) and 43,076 deaths (38,730 confirmed) from COVID-19. The highest number of cases and deaths in the state continue to be in the southeast Michigan counties including Oakland, Wayne, Macomb and in the city of Detroit.

MORE NEWS: ‘Very Strange’ UM Lab Case Ends With Guilty Plea and Immediate Deportation

More men than women have died of COVID-19 in Michigan, more blacks than whites – and those aged 60 and above make up a large majority of Michigan COVID-19 deaths.

According to Bridge Michigan, as of June 13th, weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases fell 9.4 percent to 695 from 767, while deaths dropped 61 percent to 17 from 43. Of the deaths, seven occurred in June, nine in May and one in April.

Mike Wilkinson of Bridge Michigan also says, “Hospitalizations are at their lowest level since after the first month of the pandemic.