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Re:Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google... by robertlagrant on Friday June 16, 2023 @06:25AM (#36354246)
> The pandemic is ongoing, we've just started calling the disease "endemic" but that doesn't make it less dangerous

It's just as dangerous (well, it's probably not, due to less lethal variants winning over more lethal ones), but that measure is not what makes it no longer a pandemic.

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Re:Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google... by iudqnolq on Saturday June 17, 2023 @01:30AM (#36367585)
Endemic diseases are defined as diseases with relatively stable case numbers confined to a localized area. This obviously doesn't apply: COVID is not confined to a localized area.

Per the WHO[1] and the CDC[2] COVID is still a pandemic.

[1]: https://www.who.int/news/item/30-01-2023-statement-on-the-fo...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/end-of...

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