Over 90% of those deaths are Americans.

Don't forget, they stopped reporting a lot of COVID related deaths as COVID a while back. Lots of sweeping things under the rug.

Modeling indicates there are more "excess deaths" due to COVID19, roughly 900-1600 per week. See link below.

The best numbers I know of are coming out of https://www.pmc19.com

They stopped monitoring the waste water for signs of Covid illness in my area years ago. Not because the numbers had gone down.

I've been coughing for 2 weeks now. Nothing serious, but I took a covid test today, out of curiousity. Test was expired. Inconclusive

These are insane numbers! Somehow the long covid ones are the ones that scare me the most. An ex colleague of mine got long covid after an infection in 2023-2024 (when covid “was over”). She now has so much brain fog she can’t live independently anymore… scary shit

COVID broke public health. You can't even get tested where I live. Nobody has any idea of the prevelance.

lemmy.ca

You can't simply buy self tests in Canada?

Lol @ all those conspiracy guys in here. At least wait till you hear about Influenza.

i track that website, as well as wastewater surveilance to give me some idea of how careful I need to be, week by week.

Are these the people that don't get vaccinated yearly?

The weekly infections isn't so bad. That means everyone catching it once every 2 years on average. I assumed it would be an annual or semi annual thing.

However, the world is forever changed. I was recently on holiday in Bali with my mother in law. She was quite unwell with cocid like symptoms. Couldn't get a test anywhere. The locals would sell anything if they could make a buck, as they are mostly subsitence living. I assume it's a policy.

I know they are still available in Australia but they are less prevalent and nobody bothers testing or isolating if they are. People think it's just a cold as they don't personally get very sick. The selfishness and lack of scientific and medical understanding in the age of information is an indctment of humanity.

I've been saying it's endemic for the whole earth for years. Now it's just another thing to test for (in my area) when people come in for upper respiratory issues along like flu and strep.

Indeed.... I know somebody who else has it and is just energy starved like crazy. If she goes anywhere she just crashes in the evening and needs 3 days to recover. Doing anything is basically wondering whether its worth it to crash for 2 days afterwards...

And the research for it has dropped. So its basically an "I hope it passes this month" by the doctors as there's no actual treatment (apparently).

This whole epidemic was sweeping under rugs from start to probably forever. Insane malpractice on so many levels and right wing nut jobs cry about governments asking them to wear masks or getting a shot as if that was a problem.

I find some irony in the fact that a lot of those that refused to wear masks during Covid are now wearing masks as ICE.

Yes. But compare it to getting the clap. With a sexually transmitted disease they will report it for statistical purposes then contact trace etc. With COVID it's only reportable with a fatality. If you test positive there is no way to get it counted. You just don't know how much is out there.

When I say you can't get tested it's not like there are clinics where you can go in and et tested like you used to. Still can for STBBDs though.

You just don't know how much is out there.

Yeah, I don't. Doesn't mean though that public health officials and researchers simply stopped monitoring the situation. Just like the Flu COVID isn't going to vanish. So what's the point of continuing regular public status updates unless there is another critical situation brewing?

As I've posted in another reply Influenza kills roughly 24,000 people per month directly or indirectly worldwide. That is in a good year. In bad years casualties can rise to as much as 54,000 per month. PER MONTH. Diseases such as Influenza and COVID simply can't be eradicated because they are so easily transmitted and in the majority of cases only cause temporary discomfort.

See why this is a ridiculous post?

I'm in the same situation. But my test was negative. Is there any way you can get another self-test?

I know some folks who think the vaccines are the cause of covid. They have other weird beliefs based on gossip and stories.

My mom, unfortunately, falls in that category. She won't get the vaccine but she still wears a mask everyday.

Not always. Sometimes people who choose not to get vaccinated infect people who can't get vaccinated, so innocent people die for the selfish choices of others.

Well, yeah... As ICE, the masks protect THEM, not other people. That's all they care about.

Sounds like ME/CFS. I have that, it sucks dick. Had to go to the doctor in-person on Monday, and it fucked me up until today (Saturday). Normally I do phone consult, but The System says No sometimes. The only treatment is "try not to trigger symptoms and hope you recover" like it's the 1800's 😂 like at least give me opium or something

How many more people need to die before it moves from "conspiracy" to "real" in your mind?

My partner has long COVID; from that we see a community of those getting diagnosed is increasing as well.

well yeah you can't just get a vaccine here you have to explain a comorbidity.

Huh I hadn't heard of that combo before

No you don't.

You should ideally be getting vaccinated twice a year.

Tests are in every pharmacy and relatively cheap.

The research is actually still picking up. Otherwise you are spot on.

At least it's logically consistent. If you don't want to get the vaccine for whatever reason, masking is what you should do.

Doesn't that depend if you are severally immunocompromised?

Brain fog doesn't seem like the best term, it needs something more clinical.

It was said all along that it would go from being a pandemic to being endemic.

This is the misinformation age.

What metrics do you use? Like, what's the line at which you wear a mask?

I used to go by number of infections per 100,000 but I can't find that anymore and I feel lost.

That's called pandemic

Lucky you

It's still a pandemic

Yeah, she's been into alternative medicine my entire life. Thankfully, she not completely against science and does go to a primary doctor for check ups.

Thanks for sharing this website

I just don't understand why all this beautiful data is shared in an image format?!?

I always found it interesting how most people seemed to only focus on survivability. Like, COVID was almost always spoken about as if there were only two outcomes: die or not die. Conversations about the disease, virus, or vaccines often completely ignored the lasting damage that the disease can leave survivors with.

That's not too much. If anything I'd consider other countries don't report it, hard to believe the US is hit that much harder

It is now a part of the usual suspects. The cold, the flu, the poo

In this case, I'm referring to the baseline or prevalence throughout all of Earth's population. Whereas pandemic is more like an epidemic that has spread to other contries.

Covid is common now like the common cold, flu, strep. It's always gonna be with us I'm afraid. I would also believe that most every human has been exposed to the virus at this point.

https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/featured-topic/endemic-epidemic-pandemic

I guess you are misunderstanding my intention here.

COVID is very much real. But people in this thread seem to believe there is some form of deliberate undercount of cases going on because our public health systems can't deal with the number of infected.

Just because news outlets don't report hourly updates on case numbers, infection rates and whatnot doesn't mean that there is an international effort going on to conceal the true extend of the situation. It means that COVID cases have reached a level that is no longer relevant for everyday life.

As an airborne easily transmittable respiratory disease COVID isn't going away. Just like Influenza. But 200 deaths linked to COVID per month worldwide? That's a resounding success for our public health efforts!

Compare that to the number of people Influenza kills directly or indirectly and tell me with a straight face that COVID is some form of superdisease that governments are hiding the true extend of.

Not getting added to a registry for catching COVID anymore doesn't mean there is no one monitoring the situation. It means that the overall spread is negligible enough that it doesn't warrant tight controls.

Order them from amazon? I see prices like 9 euros for 10.

Yesterday I heard that in my country of the Netherlands, 4 people received euthanasia last year due to long covid. Euthanasia is doctor assisted suicide, and to receive it you must prove "unbearable suffering" with no hope of improvement. They weren't super old either, the youngest was 51.

My parents are intelligent, relatively informed and not really the kneejerk type, and they believe every health complication anyone has had in the past half decade was entirely amplified by the vaccine. Fucking hell. The pandemic really broke people’s brains