• Ir J Med Sci · Feb 2024

    The end of COVID-19: not with a bang but a whimper.

    • Laura Bond and Fiona McNicholas.
    • School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. laurabond003@gmail.com.
    • Ir J Med Sci. 2024 Feb 1; 193 (1): 335339335-339.

    AbstractThe formal announcement of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic by the WHO came on the 5th of May 2023; however, unlike the pandemic onset, the pandemic end date was not met with any significant media coverage or news reporting in Ireland. Additionally, there were no series of contemplations either in newspapers or other media about the impact of the decision to formally end the pandemic despite having financial and legislative impacts on a wide number of people. Given the potential impact of the removal of government subsidies on health and occupations, government and media coverage of the decisions and potential implications would have been helpful. The opportunity for a significant debriefing of the pandemic outlining what we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic response may have been missed.© 2023. The Author(s).

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