![]() ![]() ![]() He said the mortality rate is now low enough and immunity is high enough that most countries have been able to return to life as we knew it before COVID. PFEIFFER: Did he say what convinced him it's different this time?ĪIZENMAN: Yeah. But each time, he decided that, no, the world hadn't made enough progress. And, you know, prior to today, Tedros considered lifting the emergency 14 separate times. And in the more than three years since, as Tedros put it, COVID-19 turned our world upside down, causing nearly 7 million reported deaths around the world, with the actual death toll probably closer to 20 million. WHO's head, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noted that it was way back in January 30 of 2020 when he declared that the then-still-pretty-nascent COVID-19 outbreak was a global emergency. You could hear the emotion in the voices of WHO officials. I mean, I had chills listening to this press conference. And even though many people feel like they put COVID behind them a while ago, was there a sense that this is momentous news?ĪIZENMAN: Yeah. PFEIFFER: It has been a long, rough road to get here. ![]() ![]() PFEIFFER: With us now is NPR global health correspondent Nurith Aizenman. TEDROS GHEBREYESUS: It's therefore with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency. Today, the head of the World Health Organization held a press conference to make this major announcement. ![]()
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