WHO: WHO launches new, unified plan for countries to manage coronaviruses: COVID-19 and beyond

[Kalliope]

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Although the global impact of COVID-19 has reduced since the peak of the pandemic, the virus continues to circulate widely, causing severe disease and death in high-risk groups. Around 6% of those infected develop Post COVID-19 Condition (also known as long COVID), with 15% of these people experiencing symptoms beyond a year. Several regions have recently reported increases in SARS-CoV-2 activity, and uncertainties persist around virus evolution and long-term impacts of COVID-19.

“Coronaviruses remain one of the most consequential infectious disease threats today,” said Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO Acting Director for Epidemic and Pandemic Management.

WHO launches new, unified plan for countries to manage coronaviruses: COVID-19 and beyond

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new strategic plan for the management of coronavirus disease threats, including COVID-19, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV), and potential new coronavirus diseases of public health importance. This is the first such unified plan for...

www.who.int

 

[Utsikt]

As far as I can tell, there is no mention of the potential risks associated with repeated infections, and no mention of the excess mortality from cardiovascular disease that’s been observed after the lockdowns ended. Or the increase of general ill health in the European countries - which I assume happens other places as well.

If this is not a public health crisis to be taken, I don’t know what the point of WHO is..

 

[bicentennial]

So as globally assessed:

- the Covid-19 pandemic is past the peak, but severe disease and death continue in high risk groups

- everyone else infected manages better, but also 6% of those infected develop Long Covid, and nearly 1% of those infected do not recover from Long Covid within a year

I guess the WHO do not count cases of organ damage or chronic cardiovasvular disease in recovery rates counted as: about 5% of those infected recover from Long Covid within a year and about 1% of those infected do not, but are left with a Longer Long Covid

Also there is the current resurge of Covid-19 infections, and the prognostications are mysterious in that we still can't be sure how it evolves, what it does in passing and what it left in its wake

And Its still up in the top 10 threats of infectious disease.

So for all these reasons it needs consistent planned management (who would have guessed).

Its not just Covid-19, its also a Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, MERS-Covid.

At a later date, the regions now reporting this surge can catch up wth the further problems of repeated infections, cardiovascular disease, and ongoing excesses or increases of collapsing health, illness and death.

Likewise the strange new combos of those different pathogens which previously could not occur together in one body, due to such competition with eachother that one would deny the other.

But now there is room for two (or more) at a time - now I must read this globally belated disease management plan, ignore the 5 year delay, find that reference for new combinations come to plague us, and ignore the devoutly "biblical" apocalypse fans.

According to the WHO, it is consistently approaching a public health crisis already, maybe in the nick of time heh.

 

[BrightCandle]

I guess the WHO do not count cases of organ damage or chronic cardiovasvular disease in recovery rates counted as: about 5% of those infected recover from Long Covid within a year and about 1% of those infected do not, but are left with a Longer Long Covid

This is about definitions for the WHO I suspect. Long Covid is the symptoms that appear or remain after 3 months after infection with Covid that are not explained by another condition. Which ultimately excludes cardiovascular disease and organ damage which are already named conditions. But what has always bugged me about this definition is ME/CFS is included under it for some reason, even those its already named and existing condition and seems to be distinct, its a bit weird what is and is not being researched under Long Covid.

This WHO definition has done an awful lot of harm to understanding the impact of Covid, whole diseases got excluded from research funding for "Long Covid". The patients that coined the term don't mean what the WHO/CDC mean by it and its been a problem for a while now. Then there is PASC which is mostly being used by certain UK researchers and its a whole other entity entirely, mostly post intensive care and severe Covid consequences.