U.S. economy grew annual 6.5 percent between April and June, marking full recovery from the pandemic

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7. It's actually a pretty long article

and I'm obviously constrained to the 4 paragraphs. But they do actually mention the other issues that you describe and attribute much of the surge to "pent-up demand" in certain sectors, which I interpret as almost a "dead cat bounce".

In reality, you also have a complete restructuring of the economy and business models that we are literally in the midst of and I don't think any of them have an idea what it will settle down to look like.

So I think the gist was that use of the term "recovered" was essentially in reference to raw comparative numbers. I.e., finally getting back to what things were "pre-pandemic", but now being in what is an elongated slog towards some different "post-pandemic" economic state, where there seems to really be no end in sight to a continual series of COVID-19 outbreaks that can halt or upend further growth, and in fact, cause a setback (and the cost of goods and services is reflecting that issue).

They sortof summarize it like this -

Now that GDP has regained the ground lost in that recession, the economy will shift from recovery mode to expansion mode. But economists say it may take years to regain its full potential and reach the levels it might have seen had the novel coronavirus not interrupted the longest U.S. economic expansion on record.

(and the above was actually referencing the expansion that goes back to the Obama administration through to TFG's coronavirus nightmare that triggered a recession).