U.S. Still Recording 1,500 COVID Deaths Each Week as Cases Surge Around the Globe
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In health news, wastewater testing shows the U.S. is in its greatest COVID-19 surge since Omicron, making it the second-largest surge of the pandemic. Around 1,500 people in the U.S. are still dying from COVID every week. Public health experts say two of the main reasons are waning immunity and not enough people accessing treatments and vaccinations. Rates of infection are up globally, as well. The WHO reports 10,000 COVID deaths were recorded in December, while hospitalizations increased in dozens of countries. In Spain, authorities have reissued face mask mandates in health facilities. Mónica García: “It’s a basic and minimum measure, which we learned from the pandemic. And that is, when we have an upward trend, the first thing we need to do is protect the most vulnerable people, people who have some sort of infection that needs to be contained. And the method that is most scientifically endorsed is the mask.”
    • jantin@lemmy.world
      17·
      6 months ago

      You’re not getting good data from most of Europe either. At this point hardly anyone cares and death causes are reported as they were before 2020: pneumonia, dementia, cardiac arrest etc. Whether these were caused or worsened by COVID isn’t anyone’s concern.

      • AnarchoDakosaurus@toast.ooo
        141·
        6 months ago

        We won’t ever know the full extent of how many people have died of/ crippled by long covid. It’s in the interest of corporations and states for people to not care, to tell them to relax and pretend as if everything is normal.

        Covid will also cause massive issiues for entire generations a few deacdes down the line, which these same states and corporations will refuse to acknowledge their own role in forcing sick people into work again en mass.

        It’s tomorrow’s problem, and we pretend that tomorrow never comes.

      • mastefetri@infosec.pub
        6·
        6 months ago

        They finally achieved their original goal and most people just aren’t paying attention anymore. They don’t care anymore. I mentioned to my brother a month ago that I was going to start masking again in crowd scenarios and he just said, “What, why? Covid is over”.

  • yenahmik@lemmy.world
    11·
    6 months ago

    My 97 year old grandma spent Christmas in the hospital with COVID and congestive heart failure. I’m honestly shocked she isn’t a part of this statistic.