I hope that "ends public health emergency" doesn't suggest to people that COVID no longer exists. I'd bet many Americans think "it's just gone now", though.
Flip side: I do believe, however, that all pandemics come to an end as society-altering threats ... and that we are now "on the other side" with COVID. It's now among the battery of familiar diseases that 999 out of 1,000 of us can reliably shrug off -- until we age or become infirm and reach that day when we can't.