Covid-19 global health emergency is over, more than three years after being declared - WHO says

:mission-accomplished-1::mission-accomplished-2:

Officials said the virus' death rate had dropped from a peak of more than 100,000 people per week in January 2021 to just over 3,500 on 24 April.

:brump: When you do testing to that extent, you’re gonna find more people you’re gonna find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down, please

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Dr Mike Ryan, from the WHO's health emergencies programme, said the emergency may have ended, but the threat is still there.

    "We fully expect that this virus will continue to transmit and this is the history of pandemics.

    "It took decades for the final throws of the pandemic virus of 1918 to disappear.

    "In most cases pandemics truly end when the next pandemic begins."

    my man Dr. Mike "Mike" Ryan here, asking the party organizers to keep the music down. salute.

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      "It took decades for the final throws of the pandemic virus of 1918 to disappear.

      Bruh it's throes not throws and also the flu is still around and killing people. Smh doctors