Only New Zealand and Malaysia still publishing Covid stats in 2024 so far

[Lencoboy]

I did a bit of delving on Wikipedia yesterday evening out of curiosity concerning the general Covid situation of late and found that the only 2 countries in the world still publishing their Covid stats (on a weekly basis) so far during 2024 are New Zealand and Malaysia, and for better or worse, it seems that the rest of the world has now essentially disowned the Covid pandemic.

I wonder if Covid outside of those 2 countries is now simply being glossed over or does it now finally pale into relative insignificance for the vast majority?

What does anyone on here think?

[WiredIncorrectly]

The UK still publishes COVID stats: https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/

I'm not sure how accurately they reflect the number of infections. Most just ride through it like a flu and don't test.

The also show influenza, but interestingly they don't show the number of deaths from that.

[Lencoboy]

The UK still publishes COVID stats: https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/

I'm not sure how accurately they reflect the number of infections. Most just ride through it like a flu and don't test.

The also show influenza, but interestingly they don't show the number of deaths from that.

TBH, I don't think most people really seem to even care anymore.

But surely if another variant of Covid (heaven forbid) suddenly emerged in due course, then it probably would be a major news story once again.

And then if that hypothetical 'new' variant turned out to be no worse than existing ones, the media would no doubt drop the subject like a hot potato once again, similar to when there was a brief scare about yet another Omicron sub-variant last August-September, then quickly forgotten about afterwards after it proved to be no more harmful than then-existing ones.

Plus regarding the number of deaths for influenza not being covered by that dashboard site you have linked, it seems that hardly anyone has ever given as much as a flying fig about those, but always made a song and danced over Covid-related deaths.

[WiredIncorrectly]

TBH, I don't think most people really seem to even care anymore.

But surely if another variant of Covid (heaven forbid) suddenly emerged in due course, then it probably would be a major news story once again.

And then if that hypothetical 'new' variant turned out to be no worse than existing ones, the media would no doubt drop the subject like a hot potato once again, similar to when there was a brief scare about yet another Omicron sub-variant last August-September, then quickly forgotten about afterwards after it proved to be no more harmful than then-existing ones.

Plus regarding the number of deaths for influenza not being covered by that dashboard site you have linked, it seems that hardly anyone has ever given as much as a flying fig about those, but always made a song and danced over Covid-related deaths.

Some are suggesting it will become a problem again: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...vallance-covid

Looking at the UK stats it still seems quite problematic.

The decision not make a song and dance over COVID is probably to "keep calm and carry on". You're right, people don't care anymore. I don't know if that's a good, or bad, thing.

It's interested to see where it goes. We know it has the ability to mutate into a bad strain, when or if that happens is yet to be seen.