Drive thru COVID-19 testing administered by Total Testing Solutions (TTS) in front of White Memorial Medical Center in Boyle Heights on Thursday, Dec.
30, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) The director of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that he is "confident" the COVID-19 pandemic will end in 2023.Director-General Dr.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the comments to reporters at a media briefing in Geneva."We are certainly in a much better position now than we have been at any time during the pandemic," Dr.
Ghebreyesus said. The U.S. Department of Energy has said with "low confidence" that COVID could have originated from a lab leak in China.