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Pedro Gullón

Social epidemiologist and doctor specialising in preventive medicine and public health at the University of Alcalá

The decision on whether covid-19 continues to be considered an international public health emergency (PHEIC) is likely to have little impact on the day-to-day management of the pandemic in Spain. The characteristics for which the emergency was declared are no longer met and governments are acting according to their plans regardless of whether covid-19 continues to be considered a PHEIC by the WHO or not. The greatest tension may be generated in contracts for vaccines and medicines that had prices subject to this declaration, which is perhaps why the WHO has been delaying the decision.

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