WHO believes Covid is still a worldwide emergency, but the pandemic may be over by 2023.

On Monday, as the world entered its fourth year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO declared that the situation remained a global health emergency. In spite of this, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO, expressed optimism that the globe would emerge from the pandemic's emergency phase this year. A year from now, "we remain hopeful that the world will move to a new phase in which we minimize hospitalizations and death....