• christophski@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    Nationally, COVID-19 remains the primary cause of new respiratory hospitalizations and deaths, resulting in about 1,000 fatalities a week.

    1000 deaths a week? This seems like it should be newsworthy no?

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      11 months ago

      Weekly covid deaths

      (note this only goes to Dec. 10-16th thus far).

      I don’t know. We know covid deaths will ramp up just like flu every season now. But relative to past spikes, 1,000 per week nationally is pretty low.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      Compared to the ~25,000 weekly deaths in 2021? The world simply decided that it was tired of dealing with COVID restrictions, and that it wouldn’t be worth trying to eradicate it. So we just decided on what an acceptable number of deaths is, and don’t bother reporting on it unless it’s outside of that norm.