• ThwaitesAwaits@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That data is almost meaningless since governments at all levels stopped recording and reporting pandemic data. Of course things will look like they’ve gotten better if you just pretend the problem doesn’t exist.

      It’s an infant’s solution to the crisis. Covid went away because our leaders decided object permanence is for losers.

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        1 year ago

        Lol mmk, as if the CDC doesn’t document their collection methods

        Watch out for the 5g

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          From September 2022:

          The number of reported Covid cases is currently a quarter of what it was at its peak last winter. But Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, estimates that only 4% to 5% of infections are being reported, because so many are uncovered through at-home tests and aren’t reported to public health departments, or they aren’t being detected at all.

          The decline in PRC testing and a shift to at-home tests also leaves public health officials increasingly flying blind with regard to the spread of infections because few at-home test results are reported to public health departments, unlike with laboratory tests.