"The #COVID19 pandemic was the most severe health emergency in a century.
It left an estimated 20 million people dead, wiped at least $10 trillion from the global economy, and caused enormous social and political upheaval.
And we cannot talk about COVID-19 in the past tense. Although the crisis has passed, the virus remains.
It continues to evolve, it continues to kill, and millions of people continue to live with post COVID-19 condition, or long-COVID.
The pandemic taught the world many painful lessons, and over the past five years, WHO, our partners and many countries have put in place many initiatives in response to those lessons.
We established the WHO Hub for Epidemic and Pandemic Intelligence in Germany; the mRNA Technology Transfer Programme in South Africa; the Global Biomanufacturing Training Hub in the Republic of Korea; the BioHub here in Switzerland; the interim Medical Countermeasures Network; the Global Health Emergency Corps; together with the World Bank we established the Pandemic Fund; and more.
As you know, at the World Health Assembly last year, WHO Member States adopted a package of amendments to the International Health Regulations;
And last month, after three-and-a-half years of intense negotiations, they adopted the WHO Pandemic Agreement – a landmark instrument of international law to make the world safer from pandemics.
Over the past five years, we have learned a lot about COVID-19, but there is one crucial question about the pandemic that we have not yet answered: how it started.
Understanding how any outbreak, epidemic or pandemic starts is essential for preventing future outbreaks.
It’s also a moral imperative for the sake of those who lose their lives to them"-@DrTedros
Godspeed to you if you're going to a party (?) to watch tonight, but I had a party in 2016 to watch the results, and the vibe shift that happened was so sudden and horrific that I'll quite simply never do that again in my life.
If you believe God intervened to save former President Trump, but didn’t intervene to save the kids in Uvalde or Parkland or Santa Fe or Sandy Hook, then you are worshipping partisan politics, not Jesus.
@bend_ro@DanGrayson As an ER / trauma nurse who often struggles with how to help others cope with grief…This is the best advice I’ve ever seen. Thank you ❤️
About 1.5 million U.S. residents are living with lupus, and 9 out of every 10 people with lupus are women. 15% of those diagnosed with lupus are children. #LupusAwareness
Councilmember @CMJawando presents a proclamation for #LupusAwarenessMonth. Through public awareness and advocacy, we can diagnose earlier, improve access to treatments, and expand direct services to create better outcomes for those diagnosed with this autoimmune disease.
@hankgreen Anyone who works in trauma or the ER will tell you the majority of our fatal injuries come from motorcycle accidents. Even a fall off of one at a slow speed can cause fractures and gnarly scrapes at best case scenario. You become a human missile.
Please stop scheduling mandatory classes at 0730 for the night shift.
Please stop scheduling mandatory classes at 0730 for the night shift.
Please stop scheduling mandatory classes at 0730 for the night shift.
Like seriously, please stop.
Moral of the story - never dismiss a colleague’s sixth sense, a battle-hardened end product that has been refined through many years of experience. This gut feeling outperforms any blood test or warning score.
This mantra saved me from a near miss today 🙏