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.

For more now we go to Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologic- epidemiologist and COVID-19 Technical Lead for the W.H.O.. Good morning, Dr. W.H.O. COVID-19 TECHNICAL LEADER DR.

World Health Organization (WHO) official Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove said earlier this week that the agency is tracking four omicron sub-variants, including BA.1, BA.1.1, BA.2 and BA.3.

Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead on COVID-19, says the agency warned countries about risks like human-to-human transmission.

Maria Van Kerkhove (left), WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Professor Didier Houssin, and WHO official Michael Ryan at a press conference in Geneva on January 22, 2020.

Let's put that question to Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove. She's the COVID-19 technical lead at the World Health Organization, and she also heads up its emerging disease and zoonosis unit. Thanks so much ...

NPR's Noel King talks to Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, an infectious disease expert at the World Health Organization, about how the delta variant is changing the fight against COVID-19.

MARIA VAN KERKHOVE: Hi, MARGARET, thanks for having me. MARGARET BRENNAN: You're an epidemiologist. You specialize in zoonotics, which means you know a lot about how these viruses jump between ...

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, epidemiologist and WHO COVID-19 technical lead, noted an 11.5 percent increase in global cases over the last week, with a 1 percent increase in deaths.

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization's COVID-19 "technical lead," told CBS's "Face The Nation" on Sunday that developed countries like the United States are not doing enough to ...

Maria Van Kerkhove leads the emerging diseases and zoonoses unit in the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Program. STAT caught up with her to ask about how worried people ought to ...

Courtesy Maria Van Kerkhove. Cole, who had initially been excited his mother was trying to help the world respond to a crisis, became convinced she’d die from the new disease when she went to China.