Three years on, the COVID pandemic may never end – but the public health impact is becoming more manageable

By Michael Head, Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton

Three years ago, on March 11 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus first formally described COVID-19 as a pandemic.

The impact of the pandemic on all aspects of society has been enormous, but we’ve come a long way since March 2020. The toll of this novel coronavirus has been blunted thanks to responses across science, healthcare and public health.

At this point,…

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