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WHO downgrades coronavirus pandemic, no longer a global emergency
Fox News ^ | May 5, 2023 | AP

Posted on 05/05/2023 10:11:55 AM PDT by BeauBo

The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed at least 7 million people worldwide.

WHO first declared COVID-19 to be an emergency more than three years ago. The U.N. health agency's officials said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn't come to an end, noting recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East...

Tedros said the pandemic had been on a downward trend for more than a year, acknowledging that most countries have already returned to life before COVID-19...

More than three years later, the virus has caused an estimated 764 million cases globally and about 5 billion people have received at least one dose of vaccine.

In the U.S., the public health emergency declaration made regarding COVID-19 is set to expire on May 11, when wide-ranging measures to support the pandemic response, including vaccine mandates, will end. Many other countries, including Germany, France and Britain, dropped many of their provisions against the pandemic last year.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; covid; who

1 posted on 05/05/2023 10:11:55 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

It never was.


2 posted on 05/05/2023 10:12:52 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: BeauBo

May 11, 2020 (Three years ago)

UK Gov’t confirms Covid19 harmless to VAST MAJORITY of people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adj8MCsZKlg


3 posted on 05/05/2023 10:14:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BeauBo

“In the U.S., the public health emergency declaration made regarding COVID-19 is set to expire on May 11, when wide-ranging measures to support the pandemic response, including vaccine mandates, will end.”

“including vaccine mandates”


4 posted on 05/05/2023 10:22:36 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4150954/posts

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5 posted on 05/05/2023 10:24:11 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰)
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To: BeauBo
The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed at least 7 million people worldwide.

So much BS in so few words.

6 posted on 05/05/2023 10:43:40 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faithโ€ฆ.)
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To: BeauBo
Yes it still is a 'global emergency' - because it hasn't killed us all yet!

And YES it is GOING TO KILL US ALL!
Why ELSE would they have tried to scare the crap out of us
for years and years if it were not so absolutely God-awfully humanity-endingly dangerous?

Eh?

IT'S THE END OF THE HUMAN RACE!!!
IT MUST BE!!!

They've been telling us that (or trying to imply it)
OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER
AND OVER AND OVER... (etc.) FOR YEARS!!!

And the powers that be and speak (endlessly) ARE NEVER WRONG!!! And NEVER LIE!!! EVER!

If they were capable of being WRONG (or lying) they would of TOLD US that, right?

.

/sarc

7 posted on 05/05/2023 10:44:15 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: BeauBo

Especially after finding out that 30% of the worlds population was never vaccinated.


8 posted on 05/05/2023 10:58:36 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The Democrat Party - Dumbing Down America Since 1965.)
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To: BeauBo

Yet our local hospital is still requiring masks when you visit.


9 posted on 05/05/2023 11:10:37 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: BeauBo

Still gotta wear masks in any Alberta Health facility. I don’t expect this to end any time soon, even if Conservatives are re-elected on May 29.


10 posted on 05/05/2023 11:13:55 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: BeauBo

The Chinese Communist Party tried it’s best to keep it going


11 posted on 05/05/2023 11:16:26 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: BeauBo

Downgraded from pandemic to hoax.


12 posted on 05/05/2023 11:58:43 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: Boardwalk

There sir is a FACT. Covid was and is a LIE!!!


13 posted on 05/05/2023 1:01:03 PM PDT by afchief
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To: Boardwalk

You are right, it wasn’t.

My mother died of cancer in that time.

***People saw delays, denial or serious degradation in care because of Covid.***

I had folks deny that this happened, even here in the FR, but I flat out experienced it first hand with my mother.

That included depending where and for what, folks with pneumonia, heart and kidney disease as well as folks with cancer and a plethora of mental disorders.

Where it is hard to deny what happened is in the realm of mental illnesses where you saw a huge spike in suicides. Again, delays and degradation in care (virtual) were the cause.

The beauty of something like Covid is that it’s very hard to show causality. Unless of course you want to and count everyone that had mere symptoms of the flu or cold and died as a Covid fatality, as actually was the case early on and before there was a test.

While the government and medical establishment runs around waving their bullshit statistics of Covid fatalities around, the reality is that no one was counting the number of people that died because of the poor care they received.

America went backwards 2019 - 2022.


14 posted on 05/06/2023 10:40:48 AM PDT by Red6
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