Category: How long will it last?
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Biden Administration Will Stop Buying COVID Vaccines, Treatments, Tests
In a statement to the press last August 16, 2022, Dr. Ashish Jha, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, said that the Biden administration is now planning how to get out of the crisis phase of the pandemic. According to Jha, “One of the things we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about in the last…
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Doctors And Educators To Biden Administration: Revise Guidelines For Children, COVID Emergency Over
The following article was written by Alexander Nazaryan and published by Yahoo News last June 22, 2022. In it, Nazaryan covers a letter written by Urgency of Normal, a group of prominent doctors and educators. The letter, addressed to White House COVID Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky urges the…
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Is the COVID pandemic over?
To be able to gauge whether the COVID pandemic is over, we must first understand what characterizes what a pandemic is. Unfortunately, despite the billions of funds funneled into it by countries and organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO) has failed to offer a single, definitive definition of…
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WHO Says It Might End COVID Crisis But Global Data Shows There Is No Emergency
In this May 28, 2022 article for the Manila Standard, Vito Barcelo, Othel Campos et al. report that the World Health Organization (WHO) is working to declare an end to the COVID outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern. In a press briefing, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s Technical Lead for COVID-19 said,…
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Joey Concepcion: Time to Lift COVID Public Health Emergency Status
Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion believes it is time to consider easing the country out of a public health emergency status. The story on this was written by Argyll Cyrus Geducos and was published by the Manila Bulletin last May 29, 2022. Concepcion says that the Philippines should reframe the country’s approach to the…
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EU to move away from emergency phase of COVID “pandemic”
In this April 27, 2022, article for Reuters, Francesco Guarascio reports on the contents of a draft document from the European Commission. According to Guarascio, the document, which was shown to Reuters, has made major changes in the way that the European Union will deal with the COVID “pandemic”. Some of the more important aspects…
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Africa ready to transition out of pandemic phase of COVID
Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Africa says that the continent is transitioning out of the pandemic phase and will be managing the virus over the long term. The report on this was published by Al Jazeera last February 10, 2022. Moeti said, “The pandemic is moving into a different…
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How Denmark decided COVID isn’t a critical threat to society
Denmark is the first country in Europe to remove all pandemic restrictions including vaccine passports. In this February 4, 2022 article for The Atlantic, author Derek Thompson talks to Danish researcher Michael Bang Petersen to understand how Denmark determined that COVID is no longer a socially relevant illness in the country. Here are the most…
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New data shows that there is no pandemic
In this July 13, 2021 article for The Daily Sceptic (formerly known as the Lockdown Sceptics), Will Jones reports on the implications of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFA) Mortality Monitor. According to Jones, this new data from IFA is showing that the cumulative mortality in the first six months of 2021 for England…
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Singapore bares plan to exit pandemic
The following editorial piece was written by Ministers Gan Kim Yong, Lawrence Wong, and Ong Ye Kung, members of the Singaporean COVID task force. It was published by The Straits Times last June 24, 2021. In this article, the ministers bared a four-step plan to exit from the “pandemic”, with vaccination at its center. The…
