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Michael Head, Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton

Three years on, the COVID pandemic may never end – but the public health impact is becoming more manageable

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Three years ago, on March 11 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus first formally described COVID-19 as a pandemic.

The impact of the pandemic on all aspects of society has been enormous, but we’ve come a long way since March 2020. The toll of this novel coronavirus has been blunted thanks to responses across science, healthcare and public health.

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