The United States recorded a 20% increase over expected deaths between March and August 2020, and more than 225,500 people died unnecessarily, said first study principal investigator Dr. Steven Woolf, director of Virginia Commonwealth University Center. Society and Health in Richmond.
All of these exaggerated deaths can be attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and America’s insufficient reaction to it, Woolf said.
According to Dr. Amesh Adalja, principal investigator at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Safety in Baltimore, “research on excessive mortality due to COVID-19 actually highlights what many of us have noticed on a daily basis. This pandemic has been shocking to this country, and the repercussions of the pandemic have been felt and extended even to those who have never been inflamed with the virus. “
As a result, the United States is the first among countries evolved in terms of the number of people who have died consistently with the population as a result of COVID-19.
Worse, the US pandemic is a great place to stay. But it’s not the first time Summer continued even as other countries controlled to take control of the new coronavirus, the study reported.
Between May and September, the United States suffered more than 31 additional deaths of 100,000 people, said Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and his colleague.
By comparison, other countries that lost many others to COVID-19 (Spain, United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Sweden) had a large decrease in higher mortality rates due to the pandemic during the summer, as they followed tactics to prevent transmission. Virus virus.
For example, Sweden had about 15 deaths more consistent with 100,000 residents, part of the number in the United States, and the United Kingdom about 14 deaths more consistent with 100,000 residents.
“We knew it wrong. It’s even worse,” said Dr. Harvey Fineberg, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto, California.
The two new studies and an editorial through Fineberg were published online on October 12 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The 20% that accumulates in deaths in the United States is similar to the pandemic, but not all were caused by the virus, Woolf said. COVID-19 is a documented cause in only 67% of these cases.
“The calculation of excess deaths shows that for every two Americans we know die from COVID-19, one more American dies for reasons other than COVID-19,” Woolf said.
“The opioid epidemic is not gone,” Woolf said. ” Other stressed people looking to deal with the stress of this pandemic would probably have overdosed on drugs and died. We suspect that some of the deaths above the top are due to those” other causes.
It is also very likely that at least some of these unexplained excesses of death are caused by undetected COVID-19 infections, Woolf added.
Woolf and his team also discovered that the US fight was in the middle of the world. But it’s not the first time Opposed to COVID-19 it was aggravated by the resolution of some states to exit a blockage prematurely, without an intelligent plan for transmission of the virus.
“In states like Florida, Texas, Arizona, and others that have opted to reopen early, such as April or early May, their curves are very different,” Woolf said. “You see a trend towards slow initial construction and then a building in major deaths in the summer. This extended the duration of the epidemic. “
By comparison, US states have not been able to do so. But it’s not the first time They were most affected from the beginning, like New York and New Jersey, experienced an early peak in mid-April that then diminished “because they did a very clever task of controlling the spread of the community,” Woolf said.
Combined with the overall comparison of the study at the moment, studies “together say it’s very important,” Woolf said.
Other countries have taken effective measures to control the pandemic: total prohibitions, production of non-public protective devices (PPEs), access to public aptitude tests and paints, such as tactile research.
“You’ll see that America has wavered in each of those steps dramatically,” Woolf said.
He noted President Donald Trump’s early travel ban, which President Donald Trump cites as evidence that his administration responded well to the pandemic.
The ban only applied to Chinese citizens, while other countries “were blocking arrivals to their countries in a way that the United States did not,” Woolf said.
“U. S. citizens still came from China, but more importantly, the virus came from Europe and no ban was imposed until March,” Woolf said. “These kinds of gaps in our reaction have led the United States to end with a mortality rate than in other countries. “
Adalja agreed.
“It’s also vital that we didn’t have to stick to this trajectory with the pandemic,” Adalja said. “There were transparent movements that may have been taken in January, February and March, but they were not and they still are not. “
The United States has failed to change its trading force in an effort to expand a control strategy, Adalja said.
The United States “also failed in our public fitness infrastructure despite the fact that we knew this virus would come here and that it would be a huge burden on case researchers and touch plotters,” he added. “There was no effort to build [personal protective equipment] until it was too late. Imagine if we had started thinking about PPE in January and making strategic purchases at that time to increase supply. “
All this along with an astonishing loss of life that, not by chance, devastated America’s economy, Fineberg said.