The pandemic's not over June 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail THE DISEASE: New York declares an end to the pandemic emergency, but COVID-19 still rages in parts of the U.S. and around the world. THE CURE: ---- Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have declared an end to the COVID-19 emergency in New York, but the pandemic is hardly over. The novel coronavirus is still raging around the world, with recent surges in India, Brazil, Argentina, Central America, parts of the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The United States has yet to reach the epidemiological grail of herd immunity. Despite a glut of vaccines, vaccination in this country appears to have all but plateaued, with close to a third of the population still unprotected and many of those unvaccinated people resistant to getting a shot for one reason or another. That raises concern that vaccine-resistant variants could undo all the progress so far.