Although the Bitcoin price declined sharply in response to the World Health Organization’s declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic last month,
wrong.
bitcoin decline after every other major market (stocks, oil, gold,...) crashed hard. then it also recovered while the rest were continuing to crash.
interest in the crypto asset from the general public is not lost.
well nothing has changed so i don't see why would interest in "bitcoin" would ever change. short term traders come and go and they don't represent the "interest" in bitcoin though.
In fact, some Americans are taking their $1,200 stimulus checks and using them to buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
i somehow doubt that.
of course many are buying bitcoin with their worthless fiat but if this was happening on a large scale as you claim then price should have been at least $8k by now.