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The pandemic is ongoing, we've just started calling the disease "endemic" but that doesn't make it less dangerous. We have however wound down most of the prote

by hnbad 3y ago

The pandemic is ongoing, we've just started calling the disease "endemic" but that doesn't make it less dangerous. We have however wound down most of the protective measures. Germany has retired the official bluetooth contact tracing app earlier this year. I wouldn't be surprised if Google retires theirs this year or the next.

saagarjha 3y ago
I mean I agree but they're just following whatever everyone else is doing, unfortunately.
robertlagrant 3y ago
> 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.
- iudqnolq 3y ago
  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-fourteenth-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-19)-pandemic 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-phe.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/end-of...
lima 3y ago
> Germany has retired the official bluetooth contact tracing app earlier this year. I wouldn't be surprised if Google retires theirs this year or the next. Google does not have their own app. Exposure Notifications is the cross-vendor low-level API which apps like Germany's is (...was) using.
- hnbad 3y ago
  Yeah, someone else pointed that out on another comment and I wasn't aware of that before. However it seems like most countries with apps built on this API seem to have given up on public contact tracing and sunset their apps so the API might go away sooner rather than later.

by hnbad 3y ago

saagarjha 3y ago

I mean I agree but they're just following whatever everyone else is doing, unfortunately.

robertlagrant 3y ago

> 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.

iudqnolq 3y ago
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-fourteenth-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-19)-pandemic 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-phe.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/end-of...

lima 3y ago

> Germany has retired the official bluetooth contact tracing app earlier this year. I wouldn't be surprised if Google retires theirs this year or the next. Google does not have their own app. Exposure Notifications is the cross-vendor low-level API which apps like Germany's is (...was) using.

hnbad 3y ago
Yeah, someone else pointed that out on another comment and I wasn't aware of that before. However it seems like most countries with apps built on this API seem to have given up on public contact tracing and sunset their apps so the API might go away sooner rather than later.