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The WHO commented to [[Full Fact]] that it was unlikely to declare the pandemic over "in the near future" and mentioned [[cholera]], which it considers to have continued to be a [[seventh cholera pandemic|pandemic since 1961]].<ref name="ff">{{#invoke:cite web ||publisher=FullFact.org |date=12 May 2023 |url=https://fullfact.org/health/who-covid-pandemic-over/ |first=Fergus |last=Brown |title=The WHO has not declared the Covid-19 pandemic over}}</ref> The WHO does not have an official category for pandemics or make declarations of when pandemics start or end.<ref name="reuters" /><ref name="guardian" /><ref>{{#invoke:cite news ||last1=Nebehay |first1=Stephanie |title=WHO says it no longer uses 'pandemic' category, but virus still emergency |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-china-health-who-idUKKCN20I0PD |access-date=5 August 2023 |work=Reuters |date=24 February 2020 |quote="There is no official category (for a pandemic)," WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said.}}</ref> In June 2023, [[Hans Kluge]], director of the WHO in Europe, commented that "While the international public health emergency may have ended, the pandemic certainly has not". The WHO in Europe launched a transition plan to manage the public health response to COVID-19 in the coming years and prepare for possible future emergencies.<ref name="kluge">{{#invoke:cite web ||date=12 June 2023 |title=With the international public health emergency ending, WHO/Europe launches its transition plan for COVID-19 |url=https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/12-06-2023-with-the-international-public-health-emergency-ending--who-europe-launches-its-transition-plan-for-covid-19 |publisher=World Health Organization}}</ref> === Future endemic phase === {{Main article|Endemic COVID-19}} In June 2022, an article in ''[[Human Genome Organisation|Human Genomics]]'' said that the pandemic was still "raging", but that "now is the time to explore the transition from the pandemic to the endemic phase."<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal||doi=10.1186/s40246-022-00392-1|title=COVID-19 2022 update: Transition of the pandemic to the endemic phase|year=2022|last1=Biancolella|first1=Michela|last2=Colona|first2=Vito Luigi|last3=Mehrian-Shai|first3=Ruty|last4=Watt|first4=Jessica Lee|last5=Luzzatto|first5=Lucio|last6=Novelli|first6=Giuseppe|last7=Reichardt|first7=Juergen K. V.|journal=Human Genomics|volume=16|issue=1|page=19|pmid=35650595|pmc=9156835|s2cid=249274308 |doi-access=free}}</ref> A March 2022 review declared the transition to endemic status to be "inevitable".<ref>{{#invoke:Cite journal ||last1=Koelle |first1=Katia |last2=Martin |first2=Michael A. |last3=Antia |first3=Rustom |last4=Lopman |first4=Ben |last5=Dean |first5=Natalie E. |date=11 March 2022 |title=The changing epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 |journal=Science |volume=375 |issue=6585 |pages=1116–1121 |doi=10.1126/science.abm4915 |issn=1095-9203 |pmc=9009722 |pmid=35271324|bibcode=2022Sci...375.1116K }}</ref> A June 2022 review predicted that the virus that causes COVID-19 would become the fifth endemic seasonal coronavirus, alongside four other [[HCoV|human coronaviruses]].<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal ||last1=Cohen |first1=Lily E. |last2=Spiro |first2=David J. |last3=Viboud |first3=Cecile |date=30 June 2022 |title=Projecting the SARS-CoV-2 transition from pandemicity to endemicity: Epidemiological and immunological considerations |journal=PLOS Pathogens |volume=18 |issue=6 |pages=e1010591 |doi=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010591 |issn=1553-7374 |pmid=35771775 |pmc=9246171 |doi-access=free }}</ref> A February 2023 review of the four [[common cold]] coronaviruses concluded that the virus would become seasonal and, like the common cold, cause less severe disease for most people.<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal ||last1=Harrison |first1=Cameron M. |last2=Doster |first2=Jayden M. |last3=Landwehr |first3=Emily H. |last4=Kumar |first4=Nidhi P. |last5=White |first5=Ethan J. |last6=Beachboard |first6=Dia C. |last7=Stobart |first7=Christopher C. |title=Evaluating the Virology and Evolution of Seasonal Human Coronaviruses Associated with the Common Cold in the COVID-19 Era |journal=Microorganisms |date=10 February 2023 |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=445 |doi=10.3390/microorganisms11020445 |pmid=36838410 |pmc=9961755 |issn=2076-2607 |quote=After evaluating the biology, pathogenesis, and emergence of the human coronaviruses that cause the common cold, we can anticipate that with increased vaccine immunity to SARS-CoV-2, it will become a seasonal, endemic coronavirus that causes less severe disease in most individuals. Much like the common cold CoVs, the potential for severe disease will likely be present in those who lack a protective immune response or are immunocompromised. |doi-access=free }}</ref> {{as of|2023}} the transition to endemic COVID-19 may take years or decades.<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal ||vauthors=Markov PV, Ghafari M, Beer M, Lythgoe K, Simmonds P, Stilianakis NI, Katzourakis A |title=The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 |journal=Nat Rev Microbiol |volume=21 |issue=6 |pages=361–379 |date=June 2023 |pmid=37020110 |doi=10.1038/s41579-023-00878-2 |s2cid=257983412 |type=Review|doi-access=free }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). 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