“What we need other people to know is that it has the perspective of 1918,” Dr. Jeremy Faust, a leader, told CNBC. “It’s nothing to forget like the flu.” Faust specializes in emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and teaches at Harvard Medical School.
The study was published Thursday at JAMA Network Open.
MORE THAN ONE Hundred YEARS BEFORE THE CORONAVIRUS, THE PANDEMIC OF SPANISH INFLUENZA ASOLA THE WORLD
Public knowledge was collected from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the U.S. Census Bureau.
During the peak of H1N1 in 1918, according to the authors, there were a total of 31,589 deaths from all causes in 5.5 million citizens of the city. At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York, 33465 deaths from all causes among 8.28 million people wrote.
The researchers concluded that, above the major deaths, the peak of the 1918 influenza pandemic was “superior but comparable” to those observed during the first two months of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York.
It occurs in the midst of more than 20 million COVID-19 infections worldwide and at least 760,880 deaths worldwide, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins University. The United States leads the world in coronavirus deaths with at least 167528 lives lost.
The test accounts stated that in the 1918 influenza pandemic, there were approximately 50 million similar deaths worldwide, adding 675,000 in the United States.
AMERICA DEVELOPS LESSONS FROM THE SPANISH INFLUENZA PANDEMIC OF 1918
Certainly, there has been many advances in medical interventions since 1918, such as mechanical ventilation, renal replacement treatment and resuscitation, among others, according to the researchers.
After taking into account hygiene innovations and other public health and safety achievements, the authors examined said that the increase in the number of deaths in the city earlier this year is in fact “significantly higher” than that observed in height. of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
“If not treated properly, SARS-CoV-2 infection may have comparable or higher mortality than 1918 H1N1 influenza virus infection,” the researchers wrote in reference to the official call of the new coronavirus.
The researchers stated that one of the limitations is that the number of deaths avoided due to COVID-19 due to these medical advances is unknown.
The team said their findings can help “contextualize the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to more prudent policies” to reduce the spread of the virus and ease the burden on hospitals.
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