Everyone wants Covid to be in the rear-view mirror. But, as the WHO's Maria Van Kerkhove notes, nearly 15,000 people globally are dying of the disease every week.

Maria Van Kerkhove speaks at a World Health Organization press conference. The public face of WHO at over 250 briefings on COVID, she says she and her colleagues are now scrambling to respond to ...

Maria Van Kerkhove, acting director of the WHO’s department of epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention, spoke to STAT on Friday about what the agency learned in the meeting, why this ...

Friday marks three years since the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in the United States. The virus still has not settled into a predictable pattern, Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health ...

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for emergency response, told me in a recent interview on Fox News that she and her colleagues lacked enough information ...

On December 31, 2023, the World Health Organization's Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD, MS, tweeted that COVID-19 is "still a pandemic." Her long thread went on to detail the paradox of COVID's continued ...

The World Health Organization still does not have key data from China about the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak, putting the world in jeopardy, says Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the group’s Covid-19 ...

'COVID-19 is still very much with us. The virus is circulating in all countries,' said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention director.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Maria Van Kerkhove M.D. is a Technical Lead for COVID-19 in the World Health Organization with 16 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2020 News ...

By Maria D. Van Kerkhove. Sept. 17, 2024. Van Kerkhove is interim director of the Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Management, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization.

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove said the most dominant subvariant of COVID-19, XBB1.5, is also the most transmissible to date, making up about 40% of cases in the United States.