The statement that the COVID‑19 crisis in the US was “all over” by mid‑2021 is clearly refuted by subsequent events.

• In June 2021, US cases and deaths had indeed declined sharply from the winter 2020–21 peak, but substantial transmission and mortality were still ongoing. The U.S. was averaging thousands of new cases and hundreds of deaths per day around that time.
• Starting July–August 2021, the Delta variant drove a large new wave. U.S. daily cases rose from under ~15,000 in late June to over 150,000 per day in late August 2021, and hospitalizations and deaths surged correspondingly.
• This was followed by the Omicron wave beginning December 2021–January 2022, which produced the highest case counts of the entire pandemic and very high, though somewhat decoupled, hospitalizations and deaths.
• The federal COVID-19 public health emergency in the US did not end until May 11, 2023, reflecting that health authorities did not consider the acute crisis phase over in mid‑2021.

Although the prediction included an appeal for remaining people to get vaccinated, vaccination rates plateaued with a significant portion of the population unvaccinated, and in reality the US experienced multiple further severe waves after mid‑2021. In hindsight, the assertion that “this is all over” by that time is therefore wrong.