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n March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the Novel Coronavirus outbreak a pandemic and reiterated the call for countries to take immediate actions and scale up their response to treat, detect, and reduce transmission to save people’s lives, per official resources. That was from a regular bulletin issued by WHO almost two years ago.

In no time, the Seattle area had become the epicenter of what IH calls an early US outbreak. According to IH, 39 residents of Life Care Center, a nursing home in Kirkland, died from complications from the virus in one four-week span. In some cases, relatives of people who died from COVID-19 in January 2020, but didn’t know it at the time, had their deceased relatives’ death certificates amended to show they died from the virus.

In the Philippines, data as of Jan. 23, 2022, shows that there have been 3,387,524 cases and 53,406 deaths with recoveries recorded at 3,053,499 since March 2020. Like the rest of the world, Delta was the most dominant variant until the Philippine Genome Center reported that the highly infectious Omicron strain had become the most dominant in the country, based on Jan. 13 and 14 data.

As in most cases, there are stories behind these figures. Most everyone has personal knowledge of close relatives, friends, office colleagues, neighbors, and others with whom one has had more than just a passing friendship or a mere acquaintance, succumbing to COVID-19 under the most pathetic, depressing, and emotionally wrenching and financially stressful circumstances.

In many countries, relationships with the research and medical professions are also undergoing some changes, dictated very often by trust or lack of it. Some unvaccinated patients, for example, ask if they will receive equal treatment compared with the vaccinated.

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