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UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged global support for the WHO, describing the UN health agency, which has led the multilateral response since the beginning, as "absolutely critical" in overcoming COVID-19. [62] 9 April marked the 100th day since the WHO was notified of the first cases of 'pneumonia of unknown cause' in China.
Trump has repeatedly compared COVID-19 to influenza, despite Fauci estimating COVID-19 to have a mortality rate around ten times higher. On March 9, Trump compared the 546 known U.S. cases of COVID-19 at the time and the 22 known deaths at the time to the tens of thousands of U.S. deaths from flu each year.
The COVID-19 vaccines are widely credited for their role in reducing the severity and death caused by COVID-19. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] As of March 2023, more than 5.5 billion people had received one or more doses [ 130 ] (11.8 billion in total) in over 197 countries.
The WHO estimated 15% of COVID-19 cases become severe and 5% become critical. [ 137 ] [ 138 ] Trump wanted to get speedy approval of convalescent plasma , and he complained that people within the health agencies who opposed him were deliberately delaying approval of treatments and vaccines until after the election. [ 139 ]
On 21 May, the WHO and UNHCR signed a new pact, an update and expansion of a 1997 agreement, funded by the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, to better protect approximately 70 million people affected by COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries with vulnerable health systems. [171]
Pierre Kory is an American critical care physician who gained attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for advocating widespread off-label use of certain drugs as treatments for COVID-19, as president and co-founder of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). [1] [2] Kory testified twice to the U.S. Senate regarding COVID-19
Will Shortz, the longtime crossword puzzle editor of the New York Times and NPR’s “puzzlemaster” for more than three decades, had a stroke last month and has spent the last several weeks in ...
This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of the COVID-19 pandemic, involving coronavirus disease 2019 caused by SARS-CoV-2, in 2023. The WHO ended the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 5 May 2023. [ 1 ]