Over the past 25 months, the passage of time has frequently been marked by new, often grim moments: rising death tolls, measured in the thousands; new variants, heralding new waves of illness; new public health measures, a reminder of how temporary progress against the virus could feel.
But on March 25, 12 weeks after Rose's hospital census peaked at 39 patients during the omicron wave, the hospital reached a threshold it hadn't for two years: zero COVID-19 patients.