One of the last U.S. states to reopen, many of its health restrictions had already been relaxed or will not be completely phased out until autumn. Still, the formal unwinding of pandemic rules in America’s most populous state was yet another signal of a national turn toward recovery. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down some of the state’s pandemic restrictions on religious gatherings. “But it saved lives.”Two earlier attempts at relaxing health rules ended with surges in new cases, but the calculus has changed significantly with immunization. “There is no American recovery without California’s recovery,” he said in an interview.

Source: International New York Times June 15, 2021 08:48 UTC