Keith Baldrey: COVID-19 health emergency comes to an anticlimactic end

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As the World Health Organization declares the 'emergency' phase over, we know COVID-19 isn't going away.

The World Health Organization’s declaration last Friday that the COVID-19 public health emergency is officially over no doubt struck many as anticlimactic, to say the least.

But COVID-19 has not disappeared and is highly unlikely to. It is now an established pathogen around the world, and it continues to inflict damage to parts of our population, particularly the elderly. New COVID-19 variants continue to emerge as well. The latest is called XBB.1.16 , and it was first detected in India.

However, a visible and vocal anti-science community emerged, and so did conspiracy theories largely associated with the far-right fringe. There were deep divisions in some communities, and many found themselves in isolation for much of the pandemic.

 

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