Have you looked at the heat map of Michigan COVID cases lately? It’s blue.  Not to say we don’t still have some areas of concern and hospitalizations, but we’ve come a long way from the days when our funeral homes and ICUs were bursting.  Today, we discuss Michigan’s low COVID rates and how pandemics peter out and don’t conclude with a satisfying thud as appealing as that sounds. GUEST: Dave Boucher covers government and politics for the Detroit Free Press. Dr. Howard Markel is a medical historian with the University of Michigan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.