Over 90% of those deaths are Americans.
Shigella is a gastrointestinal horror, striking more than 200 million people in the world each year and killing more than 200,000, mostly children
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.
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
Unlikely, it remaina a reportable disease in the UK. We’re about 1/6 the population of the US yet we’re not getting 1/6 of the deaths. Most of Europe will also closely monitor covid deaths and the population of europe as a whole is over twice that of the USA.
I suspect one reason more people are dying in the US is because more people.refused to get vaccinated during the pandemic? And if those people are disproportionatelt more elderly (because elderly people tend to be more conaervative) then they are also more vulnderable to dying from covid when they get it.
hard to believe the US is hit that much harder
is it though, considering the us response?
like the US, the fear of covid makes businesses nervous, so they pressure the govts to stop reporting it, also they are afraid of making REMOTE work a thing again, because they lose out on revenue from people going to businesesses.
It is now a part of the usual suspects. The cold, the flu, the poo
Colds don’t cause chronic illness and brain damage.
It was said all along that it would go from being a pandemic to being endemic.
its still a pandemic, flu and cold is endemic, because different strains hit different area of the globe regularly. but covid is the same strain for most of the world.
Covid 19 is regarded as endemic by most epidemiologists. It doesnt matter how many strains there are, its purely that fhe disease is now at a relatively steady and predictable level.
It’s still a pandemic
My partner has long COVID; from that we see a community of those getting diagnosed is increasing as well.
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.
I know some folks who think the vaccines are the cause of covid. They have other weird beliefs based on gossip and stories.
It’s rare but not impossible. A Case Report: Long Post-COVID Vaccination Syndrome During the Eleven Months After the Third Moderna Dose - PMC
My mom, unfortunately, falls in that category. She won’t get the vaccine but she still wears a mask everyday.
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
Huh I hadn’t heard of that combo before
At least it’s logically consistent. If you don’t want to get the vaccine for whatever reason, masking is what you should do.
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.
Don’t forget, they stopped reporting a lot of COVID related deaths as COVID a while back. Lots of sweeping things under the rug.
they stop mid 2022. people were still get nasty covid infections, one of parents had covid that caused very painful sore throat a year later, gave us a minor infection. then last year when the razor blade variant was running around, i had in sept. i believed it was partially responsible for triggering atopic dermatitis.
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.
they also arnt reporting all the raping resulting in pregnancies thats been happening too.
Well, yeah… As ICE, the masks protect THEM, not other people. That’s all they care about.
They stopped monitoring the waste water for signs of Covid illness in my area years ago. Not because the numbers had gone down.
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/
Thanks for sharing this website
I just don’t understand why all this beautiful data is shared in an image format?!?
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
its called sequelae, alot of viruses can cause post-viral syndromes, long covid is the unofficial term. i believe it triggered my atopic dermatitis more early than usual.
Brain fog doesn’t seem like the best term, it needs something more clinical.
long covid isnt a medical term, i thinks it called sequelae for complications outside of an infeciton.
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).
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
The research is actually still picking up. Otherwise you are spot on.
Oh that’s good to hear!
I’ve heard it from them, but maybe there’s not that much being done in our area/country to find a solution for long covid ( or maybe there is and we just don’t know about it/have any breakthroughs ).
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.
This is the misinformation age.
i track that website, as well as wastewater surveilance to give me some idea of how careful I need to be, week by week.
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.
well yeah you can’t just get a vaccine here you have to explain a comorbidity.
No you don’t.
COVID broke public health. You can’t even get tested where I live. Nobody has any idea of the prevelance.
Tests are in every pharmacy and relatively cheap.
they are expensive, online t hey are super cheap when ordered in bulk. i ordered some last year.
Lucky you
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.
its only gets reported in the news, if the new variant is particular severe, like last year, otherwise you never hear about covid. also people around me, dont think it exists anymore, even in a covid-conscisous city.
That’s called pandemic
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
You can’t simply buy self tests in Canada?
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?
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I’ve been coughing for 2 weeks now. Nothing serious, but I took a covid test today, out of curiousity. Test was expired. Inconclusive
did you have any other symptoms. usually coughs dont last that long. could be bronchitis from cold, flu. i had covid last year and it cause really nasty symptoms. funny thing is the covid dint really cause alot of coughing per se, as it resulted in so much sputum from the lungs it irrittated me to cough instead.
I’m in the same situation. But my test was negative. Is there any way you can get another self-test?
amazon has pretty cheap tests, grocery store sell its, but they are quite expensive.
Order them from amazon? I see prices like 9 euros for 10.
Are these the people that don’t get vaccinated yearly?
You should ideally be getting vaccinated twice a year.
Doesn’t that depend if you are severally immunocompromised?
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.
Lol @ all those conspiracy guys in here. At least wait till you hear about Influenza.
How many more people need to die before it moves from “conspiracy” to “real” in your mind?
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.
