“It is time for countries to transition from emergency mode to managing COVID-19 alongside
other infectious diseases”, declared WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus …

“To be clear we have one strategic aim: save lives.” So stated a UK Government health
adviser in an email sent to me last weekend. It was an email filled with frustration.“Part of the …

On May 5, 2023, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that
COVID-19 no longer constituted a public health emergency of international concern …

For the first time in the post-war history of epidemics, there is a reversal of which countries
are most heavily affected by a disease pandemic. By early May, 2020, more than 90% of all …

Perspectives www. thelancet. com Vol 395 March 21, 2020 943 physician Li Wenliang and
his brave Wuhan colleagues to convey their suspicions regarding a new form of infectious …

Because of the high volume of air traffic and trade between China and Africa, 1 Africa is at a
high risk for the introduction and spread of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); …

The decision by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to declare on Jan 30
the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak a public health emergency of international …

The first wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is currently invading the
world, and several countries are now struggling to fight it or trying to delay its start to help …

The COVID19 pandemic is not over, but with collaboration and solidarity, we can transition
to a manageable endemic disease state sooner and better mitigate the most severe health …

The brutal logic that has divided the world into vaccine haves and havenots is now being
repeated as gamechanging COVID-19 drugs like Pfizer's oral antiviral Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir …