The year 2021 has been full of coronavirus restrictions and for good reason. There was a significant spike in cases throughout the United States last winter and many hospitals were strained due to severely ill patients. However, the country is largely vaccinated (45.8 percent of the overall population received at least one dose, 34.4 percent have both) and locally, the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia have seen about 50 percent of the population receive at least one dose.
Given that the U.S. is vaccinated at a higher rate than nearly every country in the world, Israel and Seychelles being notable exceptions, coronavirus cases have dropped down dramatically.