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Is Covid really over? WHO ’s announcement sounds more like surrender than victory
Although the acute phase of the pandemic may have passed, experts agree that the virus ’s effects will remain profoundThe global public emergency caused by Covid-19 may be officially over but the pandemic will still be with us for many years. Nor is it clear that governments have learned sufficiently from the outbreak to be ready to fight off new emerging microbes that could trigger worse calamities.These are the stark conclusions of scientists reacting tolast week ’s news that the World Health Organization (WHO) no longer considers Covid-19 – which has killed more than 7 million people over the past three years – ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 7, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Robin McKie Observer science editor Tags: Coronavirus Infectious diseases Science Microbiology World news World Health Organization Epidemics Society Source Type: news
WHO Declares COVID-19 Global Emergency Over
FRIDAY, May 5, 2023 -- More than three years after the coronavirus began ravaging the planet, the World Health Organization announced Friday that the pandemic is no longer a public emergency. " It ' s with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - May 5, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean?
The World Health Organization says COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency but the coronavirus is here to stay
Source: ABC News: Health - May 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Resigns, Citing Pandemic Transition
NEW YORK — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, submitted her resignation Friday, saying the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic was a good time to make a transition.
Walensky’s last day will be June 30, CDC officials said, and an interim director wasn’t immediately named. She sent a resignation letter to President Joe Biden and announced the decision at a CDC staff meeting.
Walensky, 54, has been the agency’s director for a little over two years. In her letter to Biden, she expressed “mixed feelings” about the decision and didn’t say exact...
Source: TIME: Health - May 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
WHO Declares COVID Global Emergency Over
FRIDAY, May 5, 2023 -- More than three years after the coronavirus began ravaging the planet, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Friday that the pandemic is no longer a public emergency. “It’s with great hope that I declare COVID-19...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - May 5, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
W.H.O. Ends Covid World Health Emergency Designation
The decision has little practical effect but is a significant moment in the struggle against a virus that has killed millions and upended lives throughout the world.
Source: NYT Health - May 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Nolen Tags: your-feed-science Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) World Health Organization Medicine and Health Viruses Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus your-feed-healthcare Source Type: news
Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency, says WHO
Declaration a major step towards end of pandemic that has killed more than 6.9m peopleThe Covid-19 pandemic, which has sickened or killed almost 800 million people over three years, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the head of the World Health Organization has said.The WHO first gave Covid its highest level of alert on30 January 2020, and its panel has continued to apply the label at meetings held every three months.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 5, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Health editor Tags: Coronavirus World Health Organization World news Infectious diseases Society Medical research Long Covid Source Type: news
WHO downgrades COVID pandemic, says it's no longer a global emergency
The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least seven million people worldwide.
Source: CBC | Health - May 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
‘It’s still killing and it’s still changing.’ Ending COVID-19 states of emergency sparks debate
The World Health Organization (WHO) today declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, days ahead of when a similar emergency in the United States is also set to expire. Both moves are likely to usher the world into a new phase of disease monitoring with a scaling back of surveillance and available resources to fight COVID-19.
WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a press conference today in Geneva that WHO’s emergency committee met yesterday and recommended ending the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the highest alert level WHO can declare, that h...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - May 5, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
'It ’s still killing and it’s still changing.' Ending COVID-19 states of emergency sparks debate
The World Health Organization (WHO) today declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, days ahead of when a similar emergency in the United States is also set to expire. Both moves are likely to usher the world into a new phase of disease monitoring with a scaling back of surveillance and available resources to fight COVID-19.
WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a press conference today in Geneva that WHO’s emergency committee met yesterday and recommended ending the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the highest alert level WHO can declare, that h...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - May 5, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Pandemic emergencies grind to a halt
The World Health Organization (WHO) today declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, days ahead of when a similar emergency in the United States is also set to expire. Both moves are likely to usher the world into a new phase of disease monitoring with a scaling back of surveillance and available resources to fight COVID-19.
WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a press conference today in Geneva that WHO’s emergency committee met yesterday and recommended ending the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the highest alert level WHO can declare, that h...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 5, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
World Health Organization Says COVID-19 Is No Longer a Global Emergency
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide.
WHO said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn’t come to an end, noting recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The U.N. health agency says that thousands of people are still dying from the virus every week.
“It’s with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as ...
Source: TIME: Health - May 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 wire Source Type: news
Insights from establishing a high throughput viral diagnostic laboratory for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing facility: challenges and experiences
Front Public Health. 2023 Apr 17;11:1122715. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1122715. eCollection 2023.ABSTRACTBackground: The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. Identifying the infected people and isolating them was the only measure that was available to control the viral spread, as there were no standardized treatment interventions available. Various public health measures, including vaccination, have been implemented to control the spread of the virus worldwide. India, being a densely populated country, required laboratories in different zones of the co...
Source: Cancer Control - May 5, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Sanchita Roy Pradhan M H Yashavarddhan Ashish Gupta Pramod Kumar Anuj Kumar Nazneen Arif Usha Agrawal R Suresh Kumar Shalini Singh Source Type: research
W.H.O. Dismisses Covid Origins Investigator for Sexual Misconduct
Peter K. Ben Embarek led a contentious international investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Source: NYT Health - May 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Anthes Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Sexual Harassment World Health Organization Wuhan (China) your-feed-health your-feed-science Source Type: news
WHO fires scientist who led COVID search over sex misconduct
The World Health Organization says it has fired the scientist who led a high-profile delegation from the U.N. health agency to China two years ago to jointly look into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, citing sexual misconduct
Source: ABC News: Health - May 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
