{"id":2465816,"date":"2025-03-11T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2465816\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T18:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:57:09","slug":"5-years-ago-the-who-declared-covid-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2465816\/","title":{"rendered":"5 years ago, the WHO declared COVID a pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hL9BZK7LxEg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n5 years ago, the WHO declared COVID a pandemic<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s been five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ABC News on YouTube: https:\/\/abcnews.visitlink.me\/59aJ1G<\/p>\n<p>ABC News is your daily source of breaking national and world news, exclusive interviews and 24\/7 live streaming coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Download the ABC News app for the latest headlines and alerts: https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/devices<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 coverage of breaking news and live events on ABC News Live: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gN0PZCe-kwQ&#038;ab_channel=ABCNews <\/p>\n<p>Watch full episodes of World News Tonight with David Muir here: https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLQOa26lW-uI8ixlVw1NWu_l4Eh8iZW_qN&#038;feature=shared <\/p>\n<p>Read ABC News reports online: http:\/\/abcnews.go.com<\/p>\n<p>ABC News is the home to the #1 evening newscast \u201cWorld News Tonight with David Muir,&#8221; \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d \u201c20\/20,\u201d \u201cNightline,\u201d \u201cThis Week\u201d with George Stephanopoulos, \u201cABC News Live Prime\u201d with Linsey Davis, plus the daily news podcast \u201cStart Here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Connect with ABC News on social media:<br \/>\nWhatsApp: https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VajTNakKWEKkXoAPIR11<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ABCNews<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/abcnews<br \/>\nTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@abcnews<br \/>\nX: https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC<br \/>\nThreads: https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@abcnews<br \/>\nLinkedIn: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/abcnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 years ago, the WHO declared COVID a pandemic It&#8217;s been five years since the World Health Organization <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2465817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[783437,196244,1467,208081,783438,33101,2200,783303,1541],"class_list":{"0":"post-2465816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-5-years","9":"tag-abc-news","10":"tag-covid-19","11":"tag-p_cmsid2494279","12":"tag-p_vidnews-119683482","13":"tag-pandemic","14":"tag-who","15":"tag-world-health-organization","16":"tag-1541"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}