[url]https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2023/05/who-statement-on-15th-ihr-2005.html[/url] or https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2023/05/who-statement-on-15th-ihr-2005.html - https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2023/05/who-statement-on-15th-ihr-2005.html ; More than 3 years after COVID's initial declaration as a PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern), the IHR Emergency Committee this week has recommended downgrading the SARS-CoV-2 virus to an established and ongoing health issue. Globally, reports of COVID infections, hospitalizations, and deaths have plummeted in recent months, although all three metrics continue to be under-reported (see https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2023/01/who-countries-reporting-covid-data.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(63, 63, 127); - WHO: Countries Reporting COVID Data Continues To Decline ).
Given the nearly unanimous decision by countries around the globe to deescalate their COVID response, the decision by the WHO to follow suit is not terribly surprising. - Prior to this COVID emergency, `conventional wisdom' was that a pandemic emergency might last 18 months, nobody seriously considered 3+ years. But then, a lot of pre-conceived notions were challenged during this unique pandemic. While COVID has thankfully settled down into a series of lower amplitude waves, SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve, making the future course and impact of the virus unknowable.
As a practical matter, most nations around the globe had already ended their emergency response prior to today's announcement, so its impact will be limited. DJ..in fact WHO "ending" pandemic status because member states "want to live with the virus" to "save the economy".... -Long CoViD is a very major problem -New cases/deaths are -de facto- STILL on a pandemic level [url]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table[/url] or https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/#weekly_table over half a million new cases last 7 days with most testing gone...Over 3,000 deaths reported last week...excess deaths often not back to normal -Spread outside humans increasing high speed-as far as tested... My-DJ-conclusion; like with climate collapse, wars, we "do not want to know"....
------------- We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein
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