Assessing Global Readiness to End COVID Emergency: WHO Experts Weigh In.

A panel of global health experts will meet to decide if COVID-19 is still an emergency under the World Health Organization's rules, a status that helps maintain international focus on the pandemic. The WHO first gave COVID its highest level of alert on January 30 2020, and the panel has continued to apply the label ever since, at meetings held every three months. However, there is no consensus yet on which way the panel may rule, and lifting the "public health emergency of international concern" label could impact global funding or collaboration efforts.