The head of the World Health Organisation is warning that conditions remain ideal for more coronavirus variants to emerge and says it’s dangerous to assume Omicron will be the last one.
While agreeing the acute phase of the pandemic could end this year, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus advised against thinking that “we are in the endgame.”Tedros, WHO’s Director-General, said that while other challenges like reducing tobacco use, fighting resistance to anti-microbial treatments and managing the impact of climate change on human health were important, ending the pandemic should remain the priority.
“There are different scenarios for how the pandemic could play out and how the acute phase could end, but it’s dangerous to assume that Omicron will be the last variant or that we are in the endgame,” he told the start of a WHO executive board meeting on Monday in Europe.He insisted the world could unite to end COVID-19 as a global health emergency in 2022, but said the key WHO target of vaccinating 70 per cent of the population of each country by the middle of the year would be crucial.
Tedros said the world would need to learn to live with the virus for the foreseeable future, but “learning to live with COVID cannot mean that we give this virus a free ride,” he said. “It cannot mean that we accept almost 50,000 deaths a week from a preventable and treatable disease.”In stark terms, Tedros also appealed to member states to help strengthen WHO and increase funding for it to help stave off future health crises.
“Let me put it plainly: if the current funding model continues, WHO is being set up to fail,” he said. “The paradigm shift in world health that is needed now must be matched by a paradigm shift in funding the world’s health organisation.”
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He needs to check in with the Australian media's resident expert, Dr Coatesworth, he has called it as good as over and done.
Get Africa vaccinated.
One the most corrupt organisations in the world
Who listen to him these days 🤪
The WHO is correct. There is too much hubris that the pandemic is over and people are assuming Omicron will end it. There needs to be at least 80% of the global population infected before herd immunity could be claimed, keeping in mind also that 3 doses globally are required
Instead of waffling on about more variants, he WHO should be agitating for researchers and Pharma companies to come up with a complete immunity product.
stealth variant it has curvy edges, it helps the virus avoid pcr detection
PLANDEMIC…get it…PLANDEMIC!!!!
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