{"id":50359,"date":"2022-07-13T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T23:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50359"},"modified":"2022-07-13T16:27:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T23:27:37","slug":"who-dont-act-like-the-pandemic-is-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50359","title":{"rendered":"WHO: DON\u2019T ACT LIKE THE PANDEMIC IS ENDING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) director-general this week issued a word of caution to countries and people who have ceased practicing COVID-19 safety measures, saying the pandemic is far from over.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WHO Director-General\u00a0Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\u00a0on Tuesday expressed his concerns that the international response to the coronavirus pandemic was now lagging, pointing to an observed reduction in virus surveillance and the mismanaged deployment of vaccines and treatments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe virus is running freely and countries are not effectively managing the disease burden based on their capacity, in terms of both hospitalization for acute cases and the expanding number of people with post COVID-19 condition \u2014 often referred to as long COVID,\u201d Tedros said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The WHO leader noted how the BA.4 and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28367524.22112\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvMzU1NjcxNi1iYS01LXZhcmlhbnRzLXNwcmVhZC1zcGFya3MtY29uY2VybnMtYWJvdXQtY29udGFnaW91c25lc3MtaG9zcGl0YWxpemF0aW9ucy8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5Yjg\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aC8474bd5b\/email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28367524.22112\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvMzU1NjcxNi1iYS01LXZhcmlhbnRzLXNwcmVhZC1zcGFya3MtY29uY2VybnMtYWJvdXQtY29udGFnaW91c25lc3MtaG9zcGl0YWxpemF0aW9ucy8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5Yjg\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aC8474bd5b\/email&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1657837902635000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0KBA4WBpNNU63zbhMLLOMW\">BA.5 omicron subvariants<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 now dominant in many countries, including the U.S. \u2014 have recently driven waves of hospitalizations and deaths globally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew waves of the virus demonstrate again that the COVID-19 is nowhere near over,\u201d\u00a0Tedros said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) director-general&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50360,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50359\/revisions\/50360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}