WHO fears coronavirus pandemic ‘not even close to being over’

[TheComputerGroup]

The World Health Organization warned Monday that “the worst is yet to come” from the global coronavirus pandemic.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a briefing that the world should brace for the continued spread of the deadly virus, which has already infected more than 10 million people worldwide and killed more than 500,000 over the past six months, CBS News said.

“Six months ago, none of us could have imagined how our world — and our lives — would be thrown into turmoil by this new virus,” he said.

“We all want this to be over,” Ghebreyesus added. “We all want to get on with our lives. But the hard reality is that this is not even close to being over. Most people remain susceptible, the virus still has a lot of room to move.”

Ghebreyesus also said the global health agency would send a team to Wuhan, China, where the outbreak originated, in an attempt to identify the cause of the pandemic.

“We can fight the virus better when we know everything about the virus, including how it started,” he said. “We will be sending a team next week to China to prepare for that.”

According to Johns Hopkins University, the US accounts for about one-quarter of the global COVID-19 cases and deaths.




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[TheComputerGroup]

If Trump wins in Nov, they will say we should lock down for the next 4 years ......if Biden wins, the pandemic will be over by Thanksgiving.

 

[JackStraw77]

 

[StevieRay]

Looks like they are gearing up for virus 2.0 next

 

[TheComputerGroup]

WHO says countries grumbling about coronavirus contract tracing are ‘lame’


COVID-19 has hit every state across the U.S.



The head of the World Health Organization on Monday dismissed complaints from countries complaining that contact tracing is too difficult to implement as a control strategy for the coronavirus pandemic as “lame.”

The U.N. health agency has repeatedly advised countries that shutting down their COVID-19 outbreaks requires having a strong contact tracing program in place, a labor-intensive process of tracking down contacts of people with coronavirus to ensure those at risk isolate themselves.

In recent months, countries with large outbreaks of COVID-19, including Britain and the U.S., have said there are simply too many contacts to trace for an effective system to be put into place.

Britain had vowed to have a “world-class” contact-tracing system in place earlier this month. But the U.K. ultimately ditched the digital app it developed for that purpose and politicians have acknowledged the program is not yet running at full strength despite recruiting thousands of workers. In recent weeks, British health officials have said their contact tracers are failing to reach about one quarter of people with the virus — leaving thousands of people free to pass on COVID-19.

At a media briefing on Monday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed to his emergencies director Dr. Michael Ryan as an example of someone willing to go to extraordinary lengths to conduct contact tracing, citing Ryan’s work — while wearing a bulletproof helmet and vest — during an Ebola outbreak in a part of Congo where armed groups had attacked and killed health workers.

“He believed he had to do everything to stop Ebola and to show that saving lives actually requires that level of commitment,” Tedros said.

Tedros said it wasn’t acceptable that some countries claimed there were too many contacts to trace and that the process itself was too difficult. He has previously lauded the contact tracing programs adopted by countries like South Korea, Singapore and China, which involved teams of health workers tracing tens of thousands of people and ensuring that those exposed to the virus were isolated.

Tedros said that well-resourced countries that aren’t fighting wars have little excuse for not carrying out good contact tracing.

“If contact tracing helps you to win the fight, you do it, even [when] risking your life,” he said. “If any country is saying contact tracing is difficult, it is a lame excuse.”

He noted that Tuesday would mark six months since WHO was first informed by China of an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases, the first sign of coronavirus’ emergence. The disease has since sickened more than 10 million people and killed about 500,000.

WHO said the pandemic was “accelerating,” particularly in the Americas.

“The hard reality is that this is not even close to being over,” Tedros said. “The worst is yet to come.”



https://www.foxnews.com/world/who-s...g-about-coronavirus-contract-tracing-are-lame

 

[TheComputerGroup]

Looks like they are gearing up for virus 2.0 next

Yup......& it doesn't look like there's an end in sight .......

 

[Willie99]

Cool, good news for us, hopefully they're as wrong about it's ending as they were about it's beginning

Their predictions don't mean much too me, kinda like paying Jim Fiest for picks

 

[TheComputerGroup]

Cool, good news for us, hopefully they're as wrong about it's ending as they were about it's beginning

Their predictions don't mean much too me, kinda like paying Jim Fiest for picks

Oh, I agree ......it's a clown show. They are just spreading anxiety & fear amongst the population, that's been their intent from the beginning.

 

[rush__man]

its intentionally being dragged out with this lockdown. the more you lock down the slower it will spread thus the longer the lockdown. the hoax continues.

 

[Willie99]

Oh, I agree ......it's a clown show. They are just spreading anxiety & fear amongst the population, that's been their intent from the beginning.

I know where you stand, and you post news from all sources reporting all narratives, that's cool

It's the one way Manholes that I laugh at

 

[cybersharp]

"we won't get fooled again?" <><>

(Hmmm...not sure why The Who album cover didn't show up. Oh well...?

 

[azbob]

They gotta get paid.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

WHO. Who?