One hundred hours. That’s all it took for global coronavirus infections to rise by a million in the five days leading up to last Saturday a week ago.
Buttressing this point, Prof Leo cites a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association this month that put estimated deaths worldwide at close to 20 per cent higher during the period between March and April, about two-thirds of which were attributable to Covid-19.
He is not the only politician who has done so, however. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, a self-confessed Trump fan, has also disparaged health experts’ warnings of the need for tough measures. Concerns have also been raised about Covid-19 reporting in India, a country with a healthcare infrastructure that is ill-equipped to tend to a billion-plus population.
The WHO has said of the mortality rate: “It is a ‘snapshot’ of the current situation. This ratio can vary considerably during an outbreak. Such numbers are always evolving, and we will not have a clear CFR until the outbreak is over.” Prof Leo cites local research supporting the evidence-based management of Covid-19 in Singapore and notes that it is among the few countries in the world to partner the United States’ National Institutes of Health in adaptive Covid-19 treatment trial studies using remdesivir, an immune-modulator.“We all hope there will be an effective vaccine, but we need to focus on using the tools we have now to suppress transmission and save lives,” he says.
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