Over 90% of those deaths are Americans.

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[–] 41 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Tests are in every pharmacy and relatively cheap.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    That's not a public health test as it's not reportable. Just lime I can take my own temperature but public health doesn't care. Compare the treatment of COVID to sexually transmitted infections that are reported and contact traced.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    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

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