the world health organization ended the global emergency status for covid19 more than three years after its original declaration the global health agencys emergency committee held its first meeting on 22 and 23 january 2020 following its second meeting on january 30 2020 the directorgeneral declared that the outbreak constituted a public health emergency of international concern the committee was informed that globally 133 billion doses of covid19 vaccines have been administered according to who data the covid death rate has slowed from a peak of more than 100000 people per week in january 2021 to over 3500 in the week of april 24 2023 in january the biden administration allowed the ongoing covid19 emergency declarations to end on may 11 and instead manage the virus more like a seasonal respiratory disease the us centers for disease control and prevention cdc said it would stop reporting or monitoring covid19 case data and transmission rates after the government ends the pandemics public health emergency designation next week the agency will stop using its covid19 community levels ccl system which relies on those metrics to track the spread of the virus and will instead primarily rely on hospital admission data the cdc will continue to provide covid death rates but will no longer rely on aggregate case data reported by local jurisdictions and will use national death certificate data cdcs director rochelle walensky will leave the institution at the end of june the cdc said on friday walensky has transitioned cdc after two years of covid19related closures and waves of virus variants the end of the covid19 public health emergency marks a tremendous transition for our country for public health and in my tenure as cdc director walensky wrote