The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). The move comes after reported deaths and hospitalizations for the disease have plummeted in recent months. PHE status as declared by the WHO won't immediately rescind healthcare policy changes in all nations, but countries are already set to end their own PHEs, triggering massive changes to Medicare enrollment in the US.
According to Phil Taylor, “There is still one more step before the pandemic can be declared over, but it seems that finally – after an official count of around seven million deaths worldwide – COVID-19 can be deemed a non-emergency, ongoing health issue. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged at a new conference that most countries have been able to return to life as we knew it before the pandemic, although he estimated that the true death figure from the coronavirus was probably closer to 20 million people.”
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(Source: Pharmaphorum, May 8th, 2023)
