Hello everyone! I hope you are doing well and staying safe! I wanted to get some insight from others about the upcoming fall/winter admissions! I heard whispers that a majority of graduate programs will be waiving the GRE, but I am not too sure what to believe. I have already reached out to every school that I was even remotely interested in, yet only one got back to me (University of Pennsylvania). The faculty member I had talked to said that the school has yet to make an official decision. Has anyone else heard anything about this topic? Any and all insight would be much appreciated. 
Some will and some likely won’t. I don’t know that anyone would be qualified to tell you specific institutions that will and won’t.
@firstgenproud - Strictly anecdotal here - my youngest son is applying for an online engineering masters degree from three schools: Florida, Auburn, and Lehigh. Florida is not requiring the GRE; Auburn and Lehigh are.
At this time, Educational Testing Service is only offering the GRE remotely. It takes about two weeks to schedule an exam. You have to have a camera with a microphone on your computer so that they can watch you take the test, and I believe that they record the video. You must use a whiteboard or something similar for “scratch paper,” and they have to watch you erase it. You have to use their on-line calculator.
There is one big difference between the GRE and the SAT/ACT, which might ease your mind a bit. You don’t have to report your GRE scores. Before you sign off after completing the test, you will get your verbal and non-verbal scores (it takes a while for them to grade the essays). If you are satisfied with your scores, you get free score reports set to up to three universities. Or you can wait a while to think about it, in which case it will cost you $27 per report.
If you bomb the exam, don’t report it and nobody will ever know about it except for you and ETS. If you take it multiple times (21-day waiting period), you can decide whether "to send scores from your Most Recent, All or Any test reports.
Bottom line, grad school is a huge investment in time and money (even a fully funded PhD program has a high opportunity cost). I would not decide where to apply based on whether the GRE is required.