Answer: Everywhere. That’s what “pan-” means. Think of panorama, panacea, pandemonium. COVID-19, our newest pandemic, is still everywhere. The number of countries where COVID cases are increasing, however, is less than twenty,

Endemic is the word of the week. You see it everywhere. Australia is opening up its borders, California has a new endemic policy. Denmark lifted all its COVID restrictions. Just yesterday, Britain removed all COVID restrictions.

Almost two years into the pandemic and the masked messages are still mixed. When to wear them, whether to wear them, and even, what is a mask. Two years, and there seems to be lots of studies and no consensus.

At a time when Iowa and Denmark have decided that COVID restrictions are no longer necessary, we’ve probably picked the right place to have the Winter Olympics.