Barbara Drake-Vera: Michael, everything the WHO and CDC do in regard to communication is deliberate. Word choice is everything with public healrh comms! WHO tripled down on not airbourne, but droplets, for years. I would regard their sustained use of pandemic as deliberate.

People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.

Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louismedicine.wustl.edu Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies

Why does this paper begin, "The covid pandemic is over..."? That is untrue.

It *must* be a typo, right?

Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, no scientist would ever write that, right?

Seems like a pretty solid source.

Since the sentence that claims that then immediately follows it up by saying that people are still being hospitalized by it, I think they mean that medically speaking the pandemic *is* over, because the disease is now endemic. Though they could be clearer on that.

Last I heard, the WHO still classifies it as a pandemic even tho they called an end to the international public health emergency.

Seems like they just haven't gotten around to updating that verbiage.

Michael, everything the WHO and CDC do in regard to communication is deliberate. Word choice is everything with public healrh comms! WHO tripled down on not airbourne, but droplets, for years. I would regard their sustained use of pandemic as deliberate.

People criticized WHO for saying "not airborne, but droplets", for years. People criticized the CDC for updating their isolation guidelines too! I would regard the opinions of the scientists studying the endemic nature of COVID rather than a press release or a web page that hasn't been updated.

Again, you insist that the WHO page has not been updated. Perhaps, but it is far more likely that WHO still categorizes as a pandemic.

We're all wrong and we're all right, it appears that there is no formal universally accepted definition of what constitutes a pandemic. I glanced at HPW and it doesn't appear that definitions have been agreed upon, but I'm also still not down with reading 30 page reports. time.com/6898943/is-c...

Experts Can't Agree If We're Still in a Pandemictime.com No one seems to know for sure.

Let us know what you find out.

Allow me to rephrase: There is precisely ZERO chance of my reading a THIRTY PAGE REPORT for a field in which I am NOT trained for strangers on the internet. If the report was purely about the language/linguistics of it all, then maybe I would. But it is not and I will not.

I misread your previous comment. Apologies.

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