It may feel like an arbitrary day, but it’s not as random as it seems. Long before WHO’s announcement, the US had designated May 11 as the day to end its public health emergency. She added that the disease and the coronavirus that causes it are “here to stay.”
Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead and head of its program on emerging diseases. “While we’re not in the crisis mode, we can’t let our guard down,” said Dr. The agency said that while the level of concern is lower, Covid-19 is still a global threat because the virus continues to evolve and spread. The committee “advised that it is time to transition to long-term management of the COVID-19 pandemic,” and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus concurred.īut like me, WHO plans to keep a close eye on the patient. Last week, WHO’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee met and decided that the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) should end because of declining Covid-19-related hospitalizations and deaths, and high levels of immunity in the population. There will still be testing, close monitoring and follow-up appointments – all, hopefully, to prevent readmission.
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The hospitalization has been full of setbacks and improvements, stints in the ICU and then back to the general care floor, vital signs bordering on the catastrophic but also triumphs of modern medicine and human ingenuity.Īnd although it is a very good sign that the patient is getting discharged, it doesn’t mean America (or the world) is entirely out of the woods. I think of the end of the public health emergency as my patient finally being discharged from the hospital after a lengthy illness. So, what does that mean? Throughout the pandemic, I have written several essays about the United States as if it were my own patient. WHO says Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends an ACANU briefing on global health issues, including COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine in Geneva in 2022. Director-General of the World Health Organisation Dr.
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