WHO Officials Are Warning That Global Health Systems Are ‘Collapsing’ Under The Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

CNBC: WHO officials warn health systems are ‘collapsing’ under coronavirus: ‘This isn’t just a bad flu season’

* WHO officials warned Friday against downplaying the total number of infections and deaths caused by the coronavirus as it overwhelms health systems around the world.
* Last week, the WHO declared that Europe had become the new epicenter of the outbreak, which began in Wuhan, China in December.

World Health Organization officials warned Friday against dismissing the coronavirus that’s swept across the globe as just a bad outbreak of the flu, saying it has overwhelmed health systems around the world in just a few weeks.

“Take one look at what’s happening in some health systems around the world. Look at the intensive care units completely overwhelmed. Doctors and nurses utterly exhausted,” Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s emergencies program, said at a press briefing from the organization’s Geneva headquarters. “This is not normal. This isn’t just a bad flu season.”

The virus has now infected more than 254,000 people and killed at least 10,444 people across the world, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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WNU Editor: Where I live (the island of Montreal) the hospitals have less patients than usual. But we all know that this is going to dramatically change in the next few weeks.

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