'Protecting nursing home residents is critical to preventing the high case fatality rate seen in the earlier outbreak occurring in Northern states,' Dr. Kent Sepkowitz writes for CNNOpinion on the recent spike in coronavirus cases
Dr. Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
Covid-19 cases have recently spiked across the southern half of the United States. Given the reopening of states that exposed more individuals to contagion, this trend is not surprising. What is surprising is that the case fatality rate is so low, at least for now. The hallmark of the spring Covid-19 debacle was the startling number of deaths in places as far apart as New York, Detroit and New Orleans. Morgues and funeral homes were overwhelmed by the volume; some New York hospitals required refrigerated trucks to store the bodies.Not now, though. The surge in cases has not been accompanied by a surge in deaths.
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