{"id":2346,"date":"2023-01-31T15:47:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:54:01","slug":"covid-flashback-on-jan-30-2020-who-declared-a-global-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/31\/covid-flashback-on-jan-30-2020-who-declared-a-global-health-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID flashback: On Jan. 30, 2020, WHO declared a global health emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2023\/01\/29\/1151833783\/covid-flashback-heres-how-npr-reported-on-the-coronavirus-at-a-turning-point\">NPR<\/a>) On Jan. 30, 2020, the World Health Organization sounded the alarm about an unfamiliar and deadly new virus,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2020\/01\/30\/798894428\/who-declares-coronavirus-outbreak-a-global-health-emergency\">&nbsp;declaring it a global health emergency<\/a>. &#8220;Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed the emergence of a previously unknown pathogen, which has escalated into an unprecedented outbreak,&#8221; WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. Tedros was talking about what would later be named SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease now known as COVID-19, which is all too familiar today. As of Jan. 25, 2023,<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.who.int\/\">&nbsp;almost 700 million<\/a>&nbsp;people have had confirmed infections with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.who.int\/\">&nbsp;nearly 7 million<\/a>&nbsp;people have died.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"T  deN PGmu pn  FVA  nWr\">T  deN PGmu pn  FVA  nWr<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NPR) On Jan. 30, 2020, the World Health Organization sounded the alarm about an unfamiliar and deadly new virus,&nbsp;declaring it a global health emergency. &#8220;Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed the emergence of a previously unknown pathogen, which has escalated into an unprecedented outbreak,&#8221; WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. Tedros was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-31-at-16.48.02.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}