Template talk:SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant cases

Semi-protected edit request on 15 December 2021
Change The Netherlands Confirmed Cases (Other Sources) from 123 to 105 as per the source linked to it Wallcop100 (talk) 20:13, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ — Sirdog (talk) 06:05, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 December 2021 (2)
Total is 18,000 not 8,000 110.175.225.142 (talk) 23:36, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅  LakesideMiners Come Talk To Me! 15:32, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 December 2021
78.56.125.181 (talk) 10:08, 16 December 2021 (UTC) Lithuania has 2 cases now
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.  LakesideMiners Come Talk To Me! 15:23, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting wait.svg Already done err it was already done. sorry  LakesideMiners Come Talk To Me! 15:31, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

19,070 Omicron cases in South Africa
On 14 December 2021, a press release was issued in South African by a financial services organisation and health insurance administrator. The press release mentioned analysis of the Omicron outbreak, stating: "Approximately 78 000 of these COVID-19 test results were attributed to Omicron infections over the period 15 November 2021 to 7 December 2021." However, there appears to have been some interpretation issues over the numbers of Omicron cases in South Africa. The Washington Post are reporting that "Later information provided by a Discovery Health spokeswoman put the number of total cases at 78,173, of which 19,070 tests were positive during the "omicron period" from Nov. 15 to Dec. 7." So I have updated South Africa, Col. 3 (other sources) to 19,070, but if anyone thinks this is not specific enough to put such a large figure down, then my edits for this should be reverted. SpookiePuppy (talk) 19:44, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Bobel
Philipina ada 2 di tabel mohon Di hapus salah satunya 202.67.41.219 (talk) 14:59, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting wait.svg Already done. The duplicate country listing of the Philippines has already been deleted from the table. SpookiePuppy (talk) 19:24, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Statistik
Add the death and recovery please 202.67.41.219 (talk) 16:40, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: there are 5 columns already (although to be fair I think there were only 4 when this request was made) and adding further columns for fatalities and recoveries would be quite arduous on editors who would need to update all the figures in the columns manually. Also, adding such columns would not be in keeping with the format of the statistics tables of the other main variants. SpookiePuppy (talk) 19:15, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Table sorting
The table entries need to be sorted. New Zealand, for example, should be higher up the list than it is now. I would do it myself, but I don't know what the sort key is. Is it the sum of the three "confirmed cases" figures? —Bruce1eetalk 14:03, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't think this table was ever intended to be in some sort of strict order because it's a "Wikitable sortable" chart, so each column can be reorganised instantly by clicking the up and down arrows in the respective column-header cells. I am not sure that this is visible on a smartphone though. Over the past weeks, there have been various efforts to sort the columns by descending order, but this has become nigh on impossible now, with there being four competing columns of statistics. I would be cautious about expending too much energy on trying to order the table. SpookiePuppy (talk) 14:31, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Clearly it's more complicated than I thought. —Bruce1eetalk 15:42, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Since all columns are sortable, I think the most useful sorting would be by the greatest number of confirmed cases. But that's not obvious and can cause confusion. Looking at the statistics for Delta, the order tends to get lost after a while. If I had to pick a column as a simple key, I'd pick the case count of "other sources" at the moment because it is the greatest case count in over two-thirds of the rows. Later in the future, when the spread starts to slow down, it may make sense to sort by country name. --Fernando Trebien (talk) 18:28, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

I totally agree, we need a column for sorting by the highest amount of cases, including the suspected cases. People seem to be fed up with all the different bean-counting bodies with wildly different numbers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.31.165.138 (talk) 06:12, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Highest amount of cases total would be misleading; a small country with 10,000 cases and a total population of 100,000 would be 10.0% infected; a larger country with 11,000 cases and 11,000,000 population would be 0.1% infected. MeekMark (talk) 21:09, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

I disagree with that last comment, since the UK and South Africa have only 600 thousand and 19 thousand cases respoctively, so i don't see why we can't include the suspected cases in a list of the highest totals. I'd suggest a table with the highest numbers, and then the regular chart as it exists. It's a nightmare to sort through the GISAID numbers to compare with the others, and the very few countries with suspected cases that, eventually should disappear, as updated numbers and testing goes on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.31.165.138 (talk) 03:33, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

MeekMark: Highest amount of cases total would be misleading Again, I disagree. I think people are fully capable of knowing Denmark is a tiny tiny country, and the United States and Germany are huge countries. It simply makes sense to sort the numbers by the highest number of cases. Honestly, people don't care to see GISAID and PANGOLIN and how they need to play catch up, which is all those multiple tables show.

I would create a chart with the largest amount of cases, or largest amount of confirmed and suspected cases. And then one follow that with the secondary table like we have now, which is far from being the most useful for the majority of users.

Maldives
I am from Maldives and I want to say its not 2 cases that was reported it's 5 in total now, 4 from resorts and 1 from Greater Male' region Ahmed Alsan Mohamed Ali (talk) 16:31, 30 December 2021 (UTC)


 * ✅ Updated in Col. 4 (other sources) on the statistics table from 1 to 5 cases. SpookiePuppy (talk) 18:28, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 December 2021
Change to Number of Cases for Iceland in the table, per the listed source the number is not 200 confirmed omicron cases but 84 listed cases. 2601:8C3:C000:1CE0:F1A6:78B4:ED45:F831 (talk) 21:13, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ The 200 cases for Iceland listed under Col. 4 (other sources) has been amended to 84. SpookiePuppy (talk) 15:54, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Updates since 22 December
lots of people seem to be awaiting the updates since 22nd Dec — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.31.165.138 (talk) 00:29, 28 December 2021 (UTC)


 * for Col. 2 of the statistics table ("PANGOLIN") which has now been updated to 30 December 2021. SpookiePuppy (talk) 18:19, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅. Col. 3 ("GISAID") of the statistics table has now been fully updated for 31 December 2021. SpookiePuppy (talk) 18:55, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 December 2021
Fix excess newlines around includeonly templating at end of table. 109.70.40.55 (talk) 00:14, 30 December 2021 (UTC)


 * ✅ --Hemanthah (talk) 11:49, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Remove this statistics section
This is a misleading and ridiculous section. It was always behind reality but now it's so far behind reality that it's actually misleading to anyone reading it. for example Ireland has has more cases of COVID in the last week tham in all of 2020 and yet the confirmed and suspected cases of Omicron is in the low hundreds. Best not to try document something that is going to be so far behind that it is laughable as a "statistic" 89.100.188.169 (talk) 16:29, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 * citation needed MeekMark (talk) 21:12, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: The numbers for variants are much lower than the actual number: the reason for that is that most countries don't detect if someone has a variant or not. Based on what you said, Ireland is probably not sequencing cases well which makes the number of "Detected" Omicron cases low. Crannofonix (talk) 11:25, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Inaccuracy of new cases caused by the Omicron variant
Data still shows that the Delta variant has much more new cases than the Omicron variant, which is not true anymore as according to the CDC and coronavirus news reports. If you know how to do programming codes to edit it, then it would be well appreciated. Williamwang363 (talk) 16:52, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: Could you please tell which part of the Wikipedia page should we fix? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crannofonix (talk • contribs) 14:05, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi Crannofonix. As of November 2022, the column headers dates ( as of...) are inaccurate by now- it is most obvious in the other sources column, where most figures are from 2021 or early 2022. The date should be removed entirely, since every country has a different source.--Wuerzele (talk) 14:23, 20 November 2022 (UTC)