Another year has passed where COVID-19 has been part of our reality. While the U.S. remains in a federal public-health emergency free zone, a leader at the World Health Organization voiced concerns on X (formally known as Twitter) about where the world stands at this stage in the pandemic. In a post, Marian Van Kerkhove, M.D. said COVID-19 is “still a global health threat.”
“It’s still a pandemic causing far too many (re)infections, hospitalizations, deaths and long covid when tools exist to prevent them,” she wrote. “Cases and hospitalisations for #COVID19 have been on the rise for months; hospitals in many countries are burdened and overwhelmed from COVID and other pathogens, and deaths are on the rise.” Dr. Van Kerkhove said governments and individuals can’t give in to complacency, emphasizing that the world has gone through something “traumatic.”
