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Three years on, is COVID still an emergency? Or should we be more worried about the flu?

Three years on, is COVID still an emergency? Or should we be more worried about the flu?

It has been three years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global health emergency. The WHO isn't ready to downgrade the status of the pandemic, but the committee has agreed we're at a 'transition' point. Meanwhile an outbreak of influenza in mink has highlighted the need for greater animal-human disease surveillance.

What's That Rash? · Australian Broadcasting Corporation

January 31, 2023

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Show Notes

It has been three years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global health emergency. 

The WHO isn't ready to downgrade the status of the pandemic, but the committee has agreed we're at a 'transition' point. 

Meanwhile an outbreak of influenza in mink has highlighted the need for greater animal-human disease surveillance.   

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