{"id":4258,"date":"2023-05-08T05:04:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T17:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2023-05-08T05:04:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T17:04:20","slug":"who-covid-19-status-change-makes-no-practical-difference-to-management-of-cases-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4258","title":{"rendered":"WHO Covid-19 status change makes no practical difference to management of cases- Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation&#8217;s decision to remove Covid-19 as a global health emergency is the right move, epidemiologist Michael Baker says.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/489370\/covid-global-health-emergency-is-over-who-says\">organisation said<\/a>\u00a0the virus was now an established and ongoing health issue that no longer constituted a public health emergency of international concern.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Baker said the global status change made sense at this stage, but it did not impact whether Covid-19 was still a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 was still New Zealand&#8217;s number one killer when it came to infectious disease and people should make sure they were vaccinated and take sensible precautions, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There might be some scaling down in the international reporting of cases, but really it doesn&#8217;t make a difference to somewhere like New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes no practical difference whatsoever to how countries manage this infection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation&#8217;s decision to remove Covid-19 as a global health emergency is the right move, epidemiologist Michael Baker says. The\u00a0organisation said\u00a0the virus was now an established and ongoing health issue that no longer constituted a public health emergency of international concern. Professor Baker said the global status change made sense at this stage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4260,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions\/4260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}