Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic
"We're still in a pandemic," says a lead COVID official with the World
Health Organization
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Although the WHO declared an end to the COVID public health emergency
in May 2023, the organization has emphasized that the pandemic isn't
over--it's just entered an endemic phase, which means that the virus
will continue to circulate indefinitely.
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COVID's not in the news every day, but it's still a global health
risk. If we look at wastewater estimates, the actual circulation [of SARS-CoV-2] is somewhere between two and 20 times higher than what's
actually being reported by countries. The virus is rampant. We're
still in a pandemic. There's a lot of complacency at the individual
level, and more concerning to me is that at the government level.
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We don't know everything about this virus. Even in year five, there's
still a lot of research that needs to be done.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-covid-poses-new-challenges-in-the-fifth-year-of-the-pandemic/
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