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Ending pandemics is a social decision, not scientific. Governments and organizations rely on social, cultural and political considerations to decide when to officially declare the end of a pandemic. Ideally, leaders try to minimize the social, economic and public health burden of removing emergency restrictions while maximizing potential benefits.

Treatment is expensive. Continuity of the expensive treatment can be ensured only if there is assurance of funding, either through the government or medical insurance, as is the case in other countries, the families feel.

Study by University College London also says 5% of users are wrongly told they will develop major illness

Researchers said the scoring system led to false positives and ‘performed poorly’ when predicting if a person would develop common diseases.