WHO Declares Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency Over — [Covid-19 is here to stay, but is no longer causing the waves of hospitalization and illness]


The Wall Street Journal
May 5, 2023.


The World Health Organization declared an end to the Covid-19 emergency, signaling that one of the most deadly and economically devastating pandemics in modern history is receding as the disease that caused it becomes a routine illness.


Covid-19 is here to stay, but is no longer causing the waves of hospitalization and illness that it once did because people around the world have built up immunity to the virus, the WHO said Friday.

The move doesn’t trigger changes in government funding or services, said Lawrence Gostin, faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, who has advised the WHO. But it marks a long-awaited milestone, the biggest sign yet that the pandemic is reaching a new stage after more than three years of tragedy and deprivation. 

“The global public and political leaders have long moved on,” Dr. Gostin said. 

Originally published at https://www.wsj.com on May 5, 2023.

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