As hospitalizations drop across the country states have begun to drop mask mandates. Governors have begun to feel that they can not stay in a state of Red Alert indefinitely. However hospitalizations are still higher than they even have been in any previous wave of the pandemic.
As the World Health Organization (WHO) director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, people are done with COVID, but “COVID isn’t finished with us.” He appealing for more support to fight the pandemic after his agency reported that new infections fell but virus deaths rose worldwide over the past week.
“Depending on where you live, it might feel like the COVID-19 pandemic is almost over, or, it might feel like it is at its worst,” Tedros said. “But wherever you live, COVID isn’t finished with us.” In all, WHO reported more than 19 million new COVID-19 cases and just under 68,000 new deaths from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6, 2022. Experts say the figures are believed to greatly underestimate the real toll from the pandemic.
“If you want to ensure vaccinations for everyone to end this pandemic, we must first inject fairness into the system,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. ”Vaccine inequity is the biggest moral failure of our times, and people and countries are paying the price.” “The end of this pandemic is in sight, but only if we act together for equity, and for solidarity,” he said.