When will news outlets stop reporting daily covid cases?

[Hairbrush123]

Just that really. Any ideas?

When we stop expecting more waves that will impact all our lives maybe?

When they hit single figures?

When the pandemic is over.

Or if/when we become like North Korea.

When they stabilise for a significant period.

@herecomesthsun

When we stop expecting more waves that will impact all our lives maybe?

Any idea when that will be?

I'm pretty sure no one can do any other than take a wild guess

How could we know?

Does it offend you in some way OP?

Well it’s just that cases are sky high now and deaths aren’t correlating like they were in previous waves so I wonder what it’ll take for them to stop announcing daily cases

@QueefofSheena

Does it offend you in some way OP?

Absolutely not. It’s quite reassuring knowing the vaccines do work however I’ve heard some countries announcing they’ll focus on deaths and hospitalizations - not cases. I just wonder when will we be in a position to do so.

Still over a hundred deaths on the last 24 hours, don’t you think that’s newsworthy?

I didn’t ask when will deaths stop being reported

not reporting doesnt mean it isnt happening.

When it’s over or in single figures. Without knowing cases people can’t make informed decisions re risk.

@QueefofSheena

Still over a hundred deaths on the last 24 hours, don’t you think that’s newsworthy?

WITH Covid. Registered in the last 24 hours.

Do I know when that will be? Let me take a look in my crystal ball.

The CMO & the WHO seem to thinks it will take about 5 years for us to achieve a degree of stable control over the situation with covid.

So it could be then.

Or it could be when people get bored with reading about it.

Not just yet, it would seem.

Government has told us all to get on with things and to take responsibility for our own health (which is impossible without proper mitigations in place anyway). If they stop publishing cases then we do not have the information to make informed choices.

We need to have case numbers as well as hospitalisations and deaths, otherwise how can we tell how whatever strain of the virus is spreading, how fast, etc. Hospitalisation figures are always a couple of weeks behind case figures, and deaths another few weeks on top.
If we only have hospitalisations (which we can predict from case numbers) then we're always weeks behind in the figures and so can't make good choices.

For the first time I'm not sure how many deaths or cases.. it's better for my anxiety

@QueefofSheena

Still over a hundred deaths on the last 24 hours, don’t you think that’s newsworthy?

not sure the op deserves bait-y responses. seems a simple enough query to ponder over.

When people stop clicking on their reports…

I guess when it settles down to a steady rate - people are watching the numbers now to see if they’re going up or down which has implications for all sorts.