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COVID-19 global health emergency over overview:
- Who: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that COVID-19 officially no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
- Why: The WHO’s Director-General agreed with the advice of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee, which cited a decrease in COVID-related deaths, hospitalizations, and intensive care unit admissions.
- Where: The decision has ramifications both global and nationwide.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced late last week that COVID-19 no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).
The declaration was made at the advice of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee, which highlighted a decreasing trend in COVID-related deaths, hospitalizations, and intensive care unit admissions.
The Committee also cited high levels of population immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as a reason to transition to long-term management of the virus, rather than treating it as a global health emergency.
WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has agreed with the Committee’s advice, meanwhile, and deems that COVID-19 “is now an established and ongoing health issue which no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.”
“Yesterday, the #COVID19 Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice,” Ghebreyesus tweeted.
WHO still concerned about growing ‘pandemic fatigue,’ access to life-saving care, decrease in COVID-19 surveillance reporting
Ghebreyesus did express concern about continually increasing “pandemic fatigue,” equitable access to life-saving interventions, and that surveillance reporting of COVID-19 to the WHO has “declined significantly.”
A PHEIC is defined by the WHO as “an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response.”
Ending the PHEIC, meanwhile, ends an agreement made by countries around the world to abide by the WHO’s recommendations on how to manage an emergency, including by each declaring their own public health emergency.
The COVID-19 public health emergency in the US will officially end on May 11, reports CNN.
In other COVID-19 news, a class action lawsuit was filed against Southwest Airlines by a group of its employees arguing the airline discriminated against them after they chose not to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Do you agree with the WHO’s decision to declare that COVID-19 is no longer a public health emergency of international concern? Let us know in the comments!
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One thought on COVID-19 no longer global health emergency, World Health Organization says
Yes! Should’ve been done a year ago!!!