So when the leader of the overfunded World Health Organization said on Monday that just because Omicron is harmless to most and it seems the virus is on the decline, that does not mean the worst is over, we need to look at this with a level of skepticism.
You see, the WHO is enjoying the spotlight - and their leaders are enjoying the cash coming in. The business of Covid as we know it is big - just look at Pfizer and Moderna and even Proctor & Gamble who makes hand sanitizers, they have thrived - and so has the World Health Organization. In fact, one could argue that Covid brought them relevancy and became their cash cow, ensuring they can meddle in the lives of Westerners when until Covid, they focused only on the third world nations.
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"We can end COVID-19 as a global health emergency and we can do it this year," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the UN health agency's executive board.
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For the world to end the COVID, countries need to work harder to ensure fair access to vaccines and treatment, track the virus and its emerging variants, and keep limitations in place, he warned.
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For months, the WHO has demanded that countries do more to accelerate the distribution of vaccines in poorer nations, calling on all countries to vaccinate at least 70 percent of their populations by the middle of this year.
Half of the WHO's 194 member states missed the previous target of vaccinating 40 percent of their people by end-2021 and 85 percent of people in Africa were yet to receive a single jab, Tedros said.
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"We simply cannot end the emergency phase of the pandemic unless we bridge this gap," he said.
"On average last week, 100 cases were reported every three seconds, and somebody lost their life to Covid-19 every 12 seconds," he added.
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COVID-19 has killed more than 5.5 million people since it first emerged in late 2019 and case numbers have been driven to record levels by the new Omicron variant.
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Since the strain was first detected in southern Africa nine weeks ago, Tedros said 80 million cases had been reported to the WHO -- more than all of 2020.
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Omicron appears to cause less severe disease than previous variants and Tedros confirmed that "the explosion in cases has not been matched by a surge in deaths".
The WHO chief said the world would need to learn to live with COVID.
"We will need to learn to manage it through a sustained and integrated strategy for acute respiratory diseases," he said, emphasizing it was "dangerous to assume that Omicron will be the last variant, or that this is the end game."
"On the contrary," he said, "globally the conditions are ideal for more variants to emerge."
"The potential for a more transmissible, more deadly variant remains very real."
“We think we are around the peak now in terms of cases,” Prof. Nadav Katz, a member of an interdisciplinary Hebrew University team that models COVID stats, told The Times of Israel on Monday, predicting a “significant decrease” in the number of new daily infections during the first week of February.
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