'The problems we've had here — the number of cases, the number of deaths, the number of hospitalizations — was not inevitable,” Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel told CNBC on Tuesday.
Emanuel claimed tens of thousands of American lives could have been spared by a more cohesive national strategy.published Monday on the JAMA Network website of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He analyzed per-capita mortality from the coronavirus across the U.S. and 18 other countries such as Australia, Germany and the U.K. The paper found that since May 10, America has had more deaths from Covid-19 per 100,000 people than any of the comparison countries.
That timeframe is particularly revealing since most countries were hit hard before then and "got their arms around how to manage this virus," said Emanuel. It also adjusts for the fact European nations may started seeing considerable transmission of the virus a week or two before the U.S., he added. "Italy didn't have anything special or different in terms of treatment, vaccines, diagnostics compared to the United States," he added. "What they had is better implementation of the public health measures, and that actually could have saved tens of thousands of lives in the United States."
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