You don't hear about them in the news so much anymore. But COVID continues to kill large numbers of people around the world as current COVID vaccination rates decline, even though the current COVID death tallies now after years of prior vaccination are much lower than they were earlier in the pandemic.

 

Buried in the news the other day:

 

Thailand Ministry of Health reports 239 COVID deaths and nearly 600,000 COVID cases during 2025 in Thailand thru mid-July:

 

"The Department of Disease Control earlier reported that for the year to July 14, Thailand had 589,352 reported cases of Covid-19 and 239 fatalities."

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/easy/3113828/new-covid19-strain-arrives-in-thailand

 

And in the U.S., where they no longer try to count regular COVID cases anymore, almost 16,000 reported COVID deaths thus far for the year through Sept. 25, running right now about 250 new COVID deaths each and every week:

 

 

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/

 

 

https://www.cdc.gov/covid/php/surveillance/index.html

 

 

Stay safe out there!

That's flu data.

 

https://www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/php/data-vis/2024-2025.html

 

Get your shot.

 

 

This report below is from a bit earlier in 2025 when weekly COVID deaths were somewhat higher, but it still tells the accurate underlying story. Not the highest rated news source, but vastly better than most that get posted in this subforum.

 

America’s Silent COVID Crisis: 350 Deaths a Week, Vaccine Rates Plummet, Elderly at Highest Risk

May 24, 2025

 

"Despite the pandemic no longer dominating headlines, COVID-19 continues to claim hundreds of American lives every week. New CDC data reveals that over 350 people are still dying each week, with the majority of deaths occurring among older adults. Shockingly, only 23% of U.S. adults have received the updated 2024–25 COVID vaccine—and just 13% of children."

 

 

 

 

 

9 minutes ago, Peter Crow said:

That's flu data.

 

https://www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/php/data-vis/2024-2025.html

 

Get your shot.

 

 

 

 

Not sure why you're talking about flu here, since none of the posted info here is about the flu. It's only about COVID!

 

 

How do they know they are 'covid' cases? And covid deaths?

42 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Not sure why you're talking about flu here, since none of the posted info here is about the flu. It's only about COVID!

Well, I know this is a vain attempt widen your narrow prospective, but I can see value in comparing the burden of Covid with that of an other disease, namely influenza.

9 minutes ago, Peter Crow said:

Well, I know this is a vain attempt widen your narrow prospective, but I can see value in comparing the burden of Covid with that of an other disease, namely influenza.

 

Perhaps your comments would be better suited in the following recent thread here:

 

Anti-vaxers attack the flu vaccine; unvaxed kids die from flu

 

 

3 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Perhaps your comments would be better suited in the following recent thread here:

 

Anti-vaxers attack the flu vaccine; unvaxed kids die from flu

 

 

Absolutely not, as it isn't my intention as stated in my previous post. Why would anti-vaxxers be relevant here?

But here's a COVID vs flu comparison for you...using U.S. data -- COVID has killed vastly more Americans than the flu over the past five years, more than 1.2 million with the latest count. That's keeping things in comparative perspective:

 

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/

 

COVID:

 

 

https://www.nfid.org/infectious-disease/coronaviruses/

 

FLU:

 

 

https://www.nfid.org/infectious-disease/flu/

 

 

 

One death is one too many.  Even if it’s an 80 year old diabetic.

 

We must bring back the vaccine mandates and lockdowns.   
 

Do it for the children.

The covid death graph posted shows a remarkable decline week after week. The weekly numbers are very low now. 

 

In comparison 750 plus people die every week in car accidents.

 

3x that of covid deaths. 

16 minutes ago, blaze master said:

The covid death graph posted shows a remarkable decline week after week. The weekly numbers are very low now. 

 

In comparison 750 plus people die every week in car accidents.

 

3x that of covid deaths. 

 

COVID historically has been a seasonal disease... Now is the so-called low season. It remains to seen whether the year-end 2025 period will reach the 1,000 deaths per week rate that early 2025 saw.

 

 

 

https://www.cdc.gov/covid/php/surveillance/index.html

 

The trend of COVID deaths certainly has been declining annually in recent years.... but 1,000 COVID deaths per week at the start of 2025 only looks "small" because the comparable numbers were more than 2,500 per week at the start of 2024 and nearly 4,000 per week at the start of 2023, as the above chart shows.

 

Just now, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

COVID historically has been a seasonal disease... Now is the so-called low season. It remains to seen whether the year-end 2025 period will reach the 1,000 deaths per week rate that the end of 2024 saw.

 

 

 

https://www.cdc.gov/covid/php/surveillance/index.html

 

The trend of COVID deaths certainly has been declining annually in recent years.... but 1,000 COVID deaths per week at the start of 2025 only looks "small" because the comparable numbers were more than 2,500 per week at the start of 2024 and nearly 4,000 per week at the start of 2023, as the above chart shows.

 

 

The second graph you posted also shows a steady decline year over. 

 

 

See my prior ending comment above...

 

"The trend of COVID deaths certainly has been declining annually in recent years.... but 1,000 COVID deaths per week at the start of 2025 only looks "small" because the comparable numbers were more than 2,500 per week at the start of 2024 and nearly 4,000 per week at the start of 2023, as the above chart shows"

 

 

52 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

But here's a COVID vs flu comparison for you...using U.S. data -- COVID has killed vastly more Americans than the flu over the past five years, more than 1.2 million with the latest count. That's keeping things in comparative perspective:

 

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/

 

COVID:

 

 

https://www.nfid.org/infectious-disease/coronaviruses/

 

FLU:

 

 

https://www.nfid.org/infectious-disease/flu/

 ..this is all so tiresome, no new or interetsing information, just people fixated on this issue. Please get over it and move on.

 

 

OMG

1 minute ago, Des1 said:

OMG

meant to say more ....peiple seem fixated on this .. just get over it and move on. You will die soon enough without wasting time on this, really!

16 minutes ago, Des1 said:

meant to say more ....peiple seem fixated on this .. just get over it and move on. You will die soon enough without wasting time on this, really!

If he saves just one life it will be worth it….even if he has to get cancer to do it.

 

For the children, of course.

 

 

1 hour ago, Peter Crow said:

Well, I know this is a vain attempt widen your narrow prospective, but I can see value in comparing the burden of Covid with that of an other disease, namely influenza.

Dr Vernon Coleman said; ''Covid is the rebranded flu.''

 

And what might the flu be? For me, it's a seasonal detox of the bodiy. The symptoms, of the detox, are many and varied. The best thing to do is to rest, let the symptoms run their course and not to take medications in order to suppress them. Drink plenty of clean water.

 

Of course; if one is sick, seek out a 'licensed' medical expert.

What is the vaccination status of the dead and hospitalised individuals?

"Protection against severe disease, however, has held strong. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis of data from hundreds of hospitals and Medicare claims found that, from 2023 to 2024, Covid-19 vaccines reduced immunized adults’ risk of ending up in an intensive care unit or dying from the disease by almost 70% during the first two months after vaccination and by half up to 10 months after vaccination."

 

STAT

https://archive.ph/fTkmP

 

 

 

New York Times:

https://archive.ph/HSUsy#selection-6989.0-6989.67

 

 

 

4 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

"Protection against severe disease, however, has held strong. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis of data from hundreds of hospitals and Medicare claims found that, from 2023 to 2024, Covid-19 vaccines reduced immunized adults’ risk of ending up in an intensive care unit or dying from the disease by almost 70% during the first two months after vaccination and by half up to 10 months after vaccination."

 

STAT

https://archive.ph/fTkmP

 

 

 

New York Times:

https://archive.ph/HSUsy#selection-6989.0-6989.67

 

 

 

 

What is the vaccination status of the dead and hospitalised individuals?

You can take a horse to water.... Unvaxxed still dying at about four times the rate of vaccinated even in mid 2023:

 

 

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status

 

2 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

You can take a horse to water.... Unvaxxed still dying at about four times the rate of vaccinated even in mid 2023:

 

 

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status

 

 

We are in October 2025.

 

Authorities worldwide stopped reporting vaccination statuses by mid-2023. Why is that, I wonder?

 

What is the vaccination status of the dead and hospitalised individuals in 2025?

34 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

 

We are in October 2025.

 

Authorities worldwide stopped reporting vaccination statuses by mid-2023. Why is that, I wonder?

 

What is the vaccination status of the dead and hospitalised individuals in 2025?

Who cares. Not relevant anymore.

1 hour ago, rattlesnake said:

 

We are in October 2025.

 

Authorities worldwide stopped reporting vaccination statuses by mid-2023. Why is that, I wonder?

 

What is the vaccination status of the dead and hospitalised individuals in 2025?

Ummmmm….excuse me.  Can you please stop noticing things and asking inconvenient questions. 😄