Doctors warn that poor air quality from smoke from forest fires ravaging Western states can make others more vulnerable to coronavirus infections.
“Several studies have shown a correlation between the highest levels of air pollutants and the increased spread and severity of Covid-19 cases,” said Dr. Brad Spellberg, a leading medical officer at los Angeles-USC County Medical Center, and mentioned several studies conducted in the United States, China, and Italy. “Some studies have also shown that exposing lung tissue to contaminants can increase susceptibility to viral infections. “
Smoke from wildfires can aggravate the lungs and cause inflammation that can affect the immune system, said Dr. Rekha Murthy, infectious disease specialist at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. This inflammation can make others more exposed to lung infections.
“As long as the lining of the lung or airways becomes inflamed or damaged, it increases the chance that inhaled viral waste will settle in the lungs and cause an infection,” Murthy said.
There are also considerations that smoke-filled air will lead other HIV-positive people inside, Dr. Leana Wen, CNN medical analyst. This, he said, could increase the spread of the virus.
“We know that being outdoors relative to the in-house reduces the rate of transmission . . . however, now other people are told that you have to go inside because you don’t need to breathe air that can cause breathing problems,” he says. “But you don’t need to be inside with other people and have a higher rate of getting COVID-19 . . . so it’s a problem. “
To prevent the imaginable spread of coronavirus during the intense chimney season, those who remain indoors due to poor air quality deserve to stay away from anyone who is not in their immediate home, Wen said.
More than 6. 4 million infections were recorded in the United States and another 193,215 people died, according to knowledge of Johns Hopkins University.
Approximately 150,000 of those lives would have been stored if more Americans wearing a mask before the coronavirus pandemic, according to a fitness expert.
“If the president had said from day one that everyone wears a mask, we would have about 45,000 deaths in this country,” said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, CNN medical analyst, cardiologist and professor at George Washington University.
Reiner highlighted how Germany treated the pandemic.
“They weren’t the best. They weren’t the worst. They responded well to the pandemic and killed about 10,000 people,” he told CNN’s Erin Burnett.
The United States has four times the population of Germany. “So we’d have about 45,000 dead in this country,” he said. “So about 150,000 more people would be alive. “
He reiterated the one about kissing masks.
“If you need to know why we still have 40,000 cases a day and 1,000 deaths a day in this country, it’s because we’re still talking about masks,” Reiner said. “It’s so basic. “
Influential style predicts a catastrophic winter with a significant buildup of coronavirus deaths.
An imaginable situation would see 415,090 Covid-19 deaths through January, according to the University of Washington Institute for Health Measurement and Assessment (IHME) in its most recent forecast. The worst situation was from 611,000 to 1 January.
“When we look at winter with the beginning of seasonality, other people obviously adjust less attentively, you know that the use of the mask is decreased, mobility is in the field, you put everything in combination and we have the impression that we are going to December fatal before us in terms of coronavirus balance, “IHME director Dr. Christopher MurrayArray told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Despite the terrible prediction, President Donald Trump says the United States “has really done very well” with the virus.
“In fact, we’re turning the corner and the vaccines are there, but without even discussing vaccines and not therapies, we’re turning the corner,” Trump said.
In statements to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci disagreed with the president’s statements.
“We are limiting about 40,000 per day and deaths to about 1,000,” said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
He said the positivity of the tests is expanding in some parts of the country and that other people are spending more time indoors due to the cooler weather.
“He’s smart for a respiratory virus,” he said.
Fauci warned that the country will have to lower the grades “so that when you enter a more precarious scenario, such as autumn and winter, you don’t have a scenario where you’re private from the start. “
The United States may not return to life before coronavirus until next year, Fauci said, but it is cautiously positive about the availability of the vaccine until the end of the year.