How Deadly is Covid-19? Understanding the Difficulties with Estimation of its Fatality RateTo understand how best to combat COVID-19, we must understand how deadly is the disease. There is a substantial debate in the epidemiological lit- erature as toSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Early reports from January painted a grim picture about just how deadly the coronavirus was. On March 3, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that "Globally, about3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died." At the time, it was unclear whether the number of co...
How deadly is the virus? Researchers in China recently found a fatality rate of 2.3% among confirmed COVID-19 cases in mainland China. According tofindings publishedby the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1,023 of the 44,672 confirmed cases in the study resulted in death. H...
Scientists are not yet able to say how deadly the new coronavirus really is. As the virus spreads around the world, the percentage of patients dying differs from one place to the next, even within China. Other countries are now facing a growing number of cases of the virus that causes the...
While this is an indication of an alert and effective surveillance, it also puts the spotlight on the need for more aggressive and whole of society efforts to prevent further spread of COVID-19.” New Zealand reports new imported cases –New Zealand has confirmed eight new cases, all in...
The nation’s COVID-19 vaccination effort is failing. Last year, only22%of adults received the latest COVID booster, which isless than halfthe rate of vaccination for the flu — even though COVID istwice as deadly. Amid growing concern about the effects of long COVID and ahead of a ...
" and find viruses through active surveillance instead. However, since the pandemic is a disease affecting the entire world, rather than one country, virus research and analysis should be worked on together under global supervision. This will help reduce the possibility of deadly virus mutation and...
An outbreak of a new, deadly, highly contagious virus was inevitable. But an explosive global pandemic was not. There is hope, and as The End of Epidemics explains, a pandemic-free world is possible.In The End of Epidemics, leading public health authority Dr Jonathan D. Quick tells the ...
And that is exactly what the SARS-CoV-2 does, and what distinguish it from the previous corona species. Resuming some of the until now identified main features of the new SARS-CoV-2 and of its corresponding disease coined as COVID 19: The latter reflects the height of the power of the...
Don't forget that COVID-19 is about 10 times more deadly than the flu, and even higher among vulnerable populations like the elderly. As a result, many fingers are crossed that a vaccine or effective treatment will be available sooner rather than later. ...