Dr. Anthony Fauci says he isn't pleased with the state of the pandemic in the US. “We're starting to see the inkling of the upticks in the percent of the tests that are positive... that's a predictor that you're going to have more surges,” he said.
Study sheds light on how NYC's early Covid-19 death toll compares to that of the 1918 pandemicWorkers bury bodies on Hart Island, a New York City public cemetery, in April. John Minchillo/AP
The relative increase in deaths during the early period of the Covid-19 pandemic was actually substantially greater than during the peak of the 1918 pandemic, the study, published Thursday in JAMA Network Open, found. Faust said that by comparing the first two months of the pandemic in New York to the worst two months of the pandemic in New York 100 years ago, the Covid-19 period had over 70% as many deaths per capita.
"We'll never know that for sure, because thankfully now we have the ability to save more lives, but even with all our technology and medical progress, the death rate being 70% as bad as it was at the worst point in 1918, I think people don't realize how serious this is," Faust said.
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