WHO: COVID still an emergency but nearing 'inflection' point

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WHO: COVID still an emergency but nearing ‘inflection’ point

Speaking at the opening of WHO’s annual executive board meeting, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “there is no doubt that we’re in a far better situation now” than a year ago

By The Associated Press
Mon., Jan. 30, 2023timer2 min. read

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/europe/2023/01/30/who-covid-still-an-emergency-but-nearing-inflection-point.html?source=newsletter&utm_source=ts_nl&utm_medium=email&utm_email=C60005D1AADA1B52D32FA3F88D5F9E9F&utm_campaign=bn_164313

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GENEVA (AP) — The coronavirus remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Monday, after a key advisory panel found the pandemic may be nearing an “inflexion point” where higher levels of immunity can lower virus-related deaths.

Speaking at the opening of WHO’s annual executive board meeting, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “there is no doubt that we’re in a far better situation now” than a year ago — when the highly transmissible Omicron variant was at its peak.

But Tedros warned that in the last eight weeks, at least 170,000 people have died around the world in connection with the coronavirus. He called for at-risk groups to be fully vaccinated, an increase in testing and early use of antivirals, an expansion of lab networks, and a fight against “misinformation” about the pandemic.

“We remain hopeful that in the coming year, the world will transition to a new phase in which we reduce hospitalizations and deaths to the lowest possible level,” he said.

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Applegrove:

Thank to all the health workers and scientists. We owe you so much.

[Initech]

1. Excellent! Good to see that progress has been made!

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Great news!

The US is seeing the fewest Covid deaths per day currently since the opening days of the pandemic in 2020. The vaccines are largely what is to thank for that. Biden did a great jo of getting as many people vaccinated as possible.

[Meowmee]

3. Not heroes

At all. They negligently infected my father, and then murdered him. Gave young healthy people a vaccine before him. So many egregious crimes have been committed re the pandemic.

[tanyev]

4. I just recently noticed how low the numbers are for bivalent boosters.

I check Covid Act Now every day, but I don’t bother with the top part of the page. I scroll down to the All Metrics section to see if there have been updates in Hospitalizations, Cases and Deaths. The Boosted Bivalent Dose number for my county happened to catch my eye, and it’s only 12.7%. This is a red county, but that really surprised me because our number for the first shot is 80%.

And then I noticed it’s even lower in some of the other counties I look at. Honestly, what is wrong with people???