For most people who get an annual flu shot, getting that shot is a routine chore, hardly a decision at all. Getting a COVID booster, on the other hand, is very much a decision – a pretty complicated decision. First you have to figure out if the CDC has decided you’re eligible or...
CNN responded with a measure of deaths per capita that is instead connected with the case mortality rate (CMR), which is the number of deaths divided by a total number of people. But what is the impact on people’s attitudes, policy preferences and behaviours of these different ways to ...
Patients with haematological malignancies have a higher risk of developing reduced immune responses to COVID-19 vaccination65,100,109,110,120,125,129and, as found in a large-cohort study in the USA, also show a lower VE (VE 74% versus 90% in non-immunocompromised individuals)111. Encouraging...
During the overall 18-month study period, patients who had COVID-19 faced a 50% higher risk of death than those with seasonal influenza. This corresponded to about eight more deaths per 100 persons in the COVID-19 group than among those with the flu. Although COVID-19 showed a greater ...
833 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in mainland China including 4636 deaths. The basic reproduction number “R0” of SARS-CoV-2 has been assessed by studies to be around 2.2 or more (range 1.4–6.5), and family pneumonia outbreak groupings add to the proof of a steadily growing ...
(IFR), i.e., the proportion of deaths among all infected individuals including asymptomatic patients, ranges from 0.3 to 1% but is higher in older individuals with comorbidities [1,3], including obesity. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken place at a time when the worldwide prevalence rate of...
Johns Hopkins Universityreported nearly 26 million people had been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and nearly 853 thousand people had died because of it. In the U.S., from May to September, COVID has caused anextra 200,000 deaths, compared to a normal year, according to Justin ...
While men and women have the same prevalence of the disease, sex differences emerged in terms of case fatality (deaths/reported cases) evidenced that the male/female ratio is always above 1.1 in 34 out of the 35 countries that provided sex disaggregated data (only for Pakistan, the ratio is...
Flu’6. The measure overcomes the variation among countries in reporting and testing and the misclassification of the cause of death on death certificates7and requires only information on the total number of deaths during the health crisis, and before, to establish the expected number of deaths. ...
2 as its highly homological sequence to SARS virus by World Health Organization [4,5]. The disease caused, COVID-19, became the first corona pandemic in human history and caused tremendous losses worldwide, with over 161 million infected cases and 3.35 million deaths by May 15, 2021 [6]....