//1 year ago today, the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. A year on, the agency still struggles

1 year ago today, the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. A year on, the agency still struggles

When the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic one year ago Thursday, it did so only after weeks of resisting the term and maintaining that the highly infectious virus could still be stopped. A year later, the U.N. agency is still struggling to keep on top of the evolving science of COVID-19, to persuade countries to abandon their nationalistic tendencies and help get