There have been over 7 million recorded fatalities due to COVID-19, from the beginning of the pandemic until the end of 2023, according to official data, but the actual death toll from the disease may be closer to 21 million, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
“We are missing deaths from around the world. Because countries aren’t reporting deaths, it doesn’t mean that they’re not happening,” said Dr Van Kerkhove
🇺🇸 US: California health officials shorten COVID isolation period to 1 day.
"California health officials have shortened the COVID-19 isolation guidelines for those who test positive as the department aims to focus more on people who are the most at risk of severe illness while also working to minimize school and workplace disruptions."
🇬🇧UK: "Parents will be told to stop the COVID-era practice of keeping children off school with sore throats and runny noses as part of a government push to tackle soaring absenteeism." 🤦♂️
Unless someone high profile gets it, most of us aren't thinking about the dangers of catching Covid-19 now. We should be – it's our country's biggest infectious disease killer, twice as deadly as influenza.
Every week we see thousands of cases, hundreds lying in hospital beds, and around 20 deaths.
(1/2) One of the weirdest antivax/covid denialist claims is that COVID is somehow "just a flu" or that its no deadlier than a flu. This is so ridiculously and easily disprovable that it should only be met with a single response: "nah"
🇺🇸 U.S. #wastewater levels are higher than during 64% of the pandemic:
🔹 1.8% (1 in 57) are infectious
🔹 >800,000 C0VID cases per day
🔹 >40,000 #LongCovid cases per day
"I don't waste my precious time trying to change the minds of covid minimizers or covid deniers. We're almost 4 years in & these people are entrenched in their beliefs. I concentrate on encouraging those who don't want to be infected to stay the course. It's worth it. Believe me."
Study: “The incidence of hospitalizations with a #COVID19 diagnosis was 4.6 times higher than the incidence of hospitalizations with an influenza diagnosis. Hospitalizations with COVID-19 were higher in all age groups. Nearly all adults hospitalized with COVID-19 had at least one underlying medical condition, but 25.8% of 0-5-year-olds and 18.3% of 6-17-year-olds had no underlying medical conditions.”
"Wearing a masks isn’t for cowards, it’s for people who genuinely care for others, to protect yourself and those around you. I had a Cousin die from Covid. His death was horrible. Every organ shut down until he died. He caught it before vaccines. He was a Republican Commissioner for Henry County, GA. After his death, my Republican family members got vaccinated. He was my age and it was a rough way to die. Family couldn’t be with him until there was no hope."
It's easy to see how one becomes trapped: this person believed our leaders' lies the 1st time, got pulmonary hypertension & became disabled. Then acquired 2 more healthcare-related infections.
"Hey, just a reminder that detecting 25 cases of a variant (plus in wastewater in several countries, but who's counting) with minimal surveillance does not equal there are only being 25 cases of that variant in the world."
"With covid, you’re usually contagious before symptoms start. This is why “wear a mask if you are sick” doesn’t work. By the time you notice you’re sick and mask up you’ve already spread it. Consistently wearing masks in public always is the only way to get ahead of this."
"Being a laboratory scientist who's been on the front lines of the pandemic 43 months performing tens of thousands of inpatient lab tests & blood gases as well as being a cancer patient, the thought that this man is an oncologist treating vulnerable cancer patients is frightening."
"While governments pretend that COVID has gone away, death data tell a different story. Australia has had 5,589 COVID deaths & 194 flu deaths so far in 2023. The death rate from COVID is 28 times higher than the death rate from flu. How much longer will Australia remain in denial?"