WHO Declares End to Covid Global Public Health Emergency

By Spencer Kimball

On May 5, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global public health emergency for COVID-19 over. "For more than a year, the pandemic has been on a downward trend with population immunity increasing from vaccination and infection, mortality decreasing, and the pressure on health systems easing," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference. "This trend has allowed most countries to return to life as we knew it before COVID-19. It's therefore with great hope that I declared COVID-19 over as a global health emergency." Since the emergency was first declared in 2020, approximately 7 million have died from COVID-19, but Tedros said the true death toll is at least 20 million.

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