After the meeting of the Committee for Emergency Situations World Health Organization (WHO)held yesterday, CEO of the same, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesustoday announced the end of the deliberate emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic declared earlier in 2020.
Although it seemed that this decision could have been made at their last meeting, three months ago, it was decided to postpone it a little longer. Fortunately, since then the performance has improved so much that this time no longer considered an emergency.
Of course, Adhanom remembered that the virus had not gone away. A possible new option is currently being explored and new options will emerge. So far, the number of infections and deaths from COVID-19 continue downbut it will be necessary to continue monitoring the disease in case action needs to be taken again. The end of SARS-CoV-2 may never come, but we have come a long way.
Optimistic evolution of COVID-19
Ever since we first learned about the disease, COVID-19 he has developed a lot. At first we thought it would be just a few cases. Later we saw that it was something much more serious, that it had spread uncontrollably throughout the world. For this reason, a pandemic situation was declared on March 11, 2020. All hopes were pinned on the vaccines that arrived in December, urging us to believe that everything will end completely. And the truth is, our lives have improved a lot. It is enough to return them to normal. But they did not completely kill the virus.
Meanwhile, new variants and new waves of the virus appeared, which, in the end, behaved as usual: mutating.
WHO conducts periodic reviews of the situation. In January 2023, most countries have already canceled all measures against COVID-19 or left only a few, like here in Spain. However, it was then decided that the numbers could still have a serious impact on the health of the population. At that time, 1.3 million new cases were diagnosed and confirmed worldwide in a week. 14,000 deaths. Now, however, a week later they have registered 630,000 cases and 3,500 deaths, so WHO decided it was no longer associated with such a high burden at the level of care. For this reason, although they insist that the disease is still among us, they have taken the expected step back.
Now what?
We are at an important juncture since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists know the disease much better, medical professionals are better trained to care for patients, and even the public their methods of diagnosis and prevention.
In addition, new vaccines continue to be developed in anticipation of the long-awaited nasal vaccine, and existing vaccines are being introduced as a booster. risk group. Similarly, research continues to be published on both the impact of vaccines and the development of COVID-19 itself. Because we know it much better, but we still have a lot to learn. While this is no longer an emergency, we must learn from what has happened, both in terms of the possibility of new outbreaks and in the face of future pandemics.
Source: Hiper Textual
