Healthcare Innovation March 11, 2025
A wide variety of impacts have come out of the COVID-19 pandemic
Five years ago today, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus—COVID-19—outbreak a global pandemic. An article published in Acta Biomedica by Domenico Cucinotta and Maurizio Vanelli on that date began thus: “The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, has declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic. At a news briefing, WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noted that over the past 2 weeks, the number of cases outside China increased 13-fold and the number of countries with cases increased threefold. Further increases are expected. He said that the WHO is “deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread...