[IceMetalPunk]

Nope, it's still around. In fact, there was a recent study that found it's actually possibly killed several times more people than we thought ( https://gizmodo.com/over-18-million-people-have-died-from-th... ) and another that found more long-term cognitive problems for survivors of the disease ( https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/covid-ups-risks-of-d... ).

It's just that missiles and bombs and trying to avoid WWIII are more pressing issues to report on at the moment.

[politelemon]

This is how news cycles work. Public attention has shifted to other topics. Covid is still around and spreading; the UK has even seen a recent uptick in infections.

[icedchai]

We're roughly at the same level of daily deaths as we were this time, last year. It's still here. The public got bored with it, and Ukraine took center stage.

[codezero]

It's on the rise in South Korea (crossed >200k cases per day) and Vietnam last time I checked. Entering the next wave / potentially new variants will likely emerge for the rest of us who just finished omicron around late spring I expect.

[T-A]

Note even close:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Global (reported) weekly cases are down to about half of the giant Omicron peak, i.e. still twice the previous record level (spring 2021).

[h2odragon]

The people can only be United Against One Great Enemy at a time. Its the primary problem with apocalyptic propaganda as a motivational tool.

[rvz]

Covid who?

The 'villain of the month' according to the mainstream media is Putin.

This 'Covid' you speak of is old news to them and it doesn't bring enough eye-balls and fear to the hundreds of millions anymore like it used to so that they can click the lies in the ads that the mainstream media needs to survive.

Fear and outrage sells more ads. But only when the 'villain of the month' gets rotated occasionally.