{"id":1410217,"date":"2022-03-30T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410217"},"modified":"2022-03-30T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:15:17","slug":"who-says-most-likely-scenario-shows-covid-severity-will-decrease-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-says-most-likely-scenario-shows-covid-severity-will-decrease-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO says most likely scenario shows COVID severity will decrease over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwho-says-most-likely-scenario-shows-covid-severity-will-decrease-over-time%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410217&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks in front of so-called &#8220;BioNTainer&#8221;, a system to produce vaccines in Africa, during a presentation in Marburg, Germany, February 16, 2022. REUTERS\/Fabian Bimmer<\/div>\n<p>March 30, 2022<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) -The World Health Organization on Wednesday released an updated plan for COVID-19, laying out three possible scenarios for how the pandemic will evolve this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on what we know now, the most likely scenario is that the COVID-19 virus continues to evolve, but the severity of disease it causes reduces over time as immunity increases due to vaccination and infection,\u201d Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a briefing.<\/p>\n<p>However, the WHO head cautioned that periodic spikes in cases and deaths may occur as immunity wanes, which may require periodic boosting for vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the other two potential scenarios, Tedros said either less severe variants will emerge and boosters or new formulations of vaccines will not be necessary, or a more virulent variant will emerge and protection from prior vaccination or infection will wane rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>The updated Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/m\/item\/strategic-preparedness-readiness-and-response-plan-to-end-the-global-covid-19-emergency-in-2022 sets out the strategic adjustments that every country needs to make to address the drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, lessen the impact of COVID, and end the global emergency.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan released by WHO and will likely be its last, Tedros said.<\/p>\n<p>The first report was released in February 2020, at the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Alison Williams and Lisa Shumaker)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks in front of so-called &#8220;BioNTainer&#8221;, a system to produce vaccines in Africa, during a presentation in Marburg, Germany, February 16, 2022. 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