WHO’s Top Covid Expert Warns of Gaping Holes in Virus Fight
Passengers at Central station, operated by MTR Corp., in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023.
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Thanks largely to vaccines and better treatments, Covid-19 isn’t the global health emergency it was in January 2020. Still, the coronavirus continues to evolve, and ICU admissions are increasing in three regions of the world, according to Maria Van Kerkhove, the epidemiologist who’s been World Health Organization’s technical lead on Covid since the start of the pandemic.