Several months before the COVID-19 pandemic began, defendant Tamir Abdullah—a federal prisoner convicted of crack-cocaine offenses—moved to reduce his sentence under Section 404 of the First Step Act of 2018. He sought to benefit from the Fair Sentencing Act’s aim at lessening the sentencing disparity between offenses involving crack cocaine and those involving other types of cocaine, made retroactive by the First Step Act. Over the next four and a half years, Abdullah continued to press his sentence-reduction arguments through several filings and at a hearing on his motion. When the district court finally decided Abdullah’s motion, it failed to address the motion’s merits; the court instead construed the motion as one seeking “compassionate release” due to the pandemic and denied it because Abdullah’s prison had only two positive cases of COVID-19 at the time. Though the district court undoubtedly erred in its interpretation of Abdullah’s motion, we nevertheless affirm the denial of the motion because intervening caselaw prohibits Abdullah from receiving a sentence reduction under the Fair Sentencing and First Step Acts.