![]() While fewer than 0.002% of infected children under 10 died of COVID-19, the rate among infected people 80 and over was at least 8%. Later estimates that tried to capture the toll across the world pegged the case fatality rate between 2% and 3%.īut COVID-19 was never an equal-opportunity killer. In the earliest days of the pandemic, studies of outbreaks in China, Italy and the United Kingdom and among passengers of the cruise ship Diamond Princess suggested COVID-19’s “case fatality rate” - which measures deaths among those infected - was somewhere between 0.7% and 1.3%. With the nation’s COVID-19 public health emergency ending and less state cooperation, the CDC has a new plan for monitoring the coronavirus across the U.S. Science & Medicine The CDC is changing the way it monitors COVID-19 in the U.S. ![]() “We have no one with severe COVID at the hospital.” Jorge Luis Salinas, an infectious disease physician at Stanford. “It’s clear the impact has decreased,” said Dr. Her comments have been echoed by doctors across the country. “I wish I could show them how few COVID patients we have, how rare it is for someone to be in for COVID, or to die of COVID.” “People who say it’s still so terrible - I wish I could take them around the hospital and show them how fine we are,” Doron said. Doron, an infectious disease specialist with Tufts Medicine. As a result, the agency’s numbers suggest an overly grim picture of the country’s health, said Dr. The CDC considers every hospital patient who tests positive for a coronavirus infection a “ COVID-19 hospitalization” even though many were admitted for other reasons. respondents remained “very concerned” about coming down with COVID-19, with an additional 22% calling themselves “somewhat concerned.”ĭying of COVID-19 is hardly impossible, but compared with the pandemic’s earliest days, it’s become pretty rare - especially if you’ve not yet reached middle age. But you are in diminishing company: That March Gallup Poll found that 3% of U.S. ![]() We get it: You have concerns.Īfter more than 1,200 days of living with and covering the pandemic, we have perspective. So as we mark the end of an era, a sense of unease has been hard for many to shake. ![]() “How about when they are as safe as they were before?” she said. Lara Jirmanus, a Boston physician and a spokesperson for the People’s CDC, cited the ongoing threat to the elderly, communities of color and those with compromised immune systems. public health emergency ends, Americans would be vulnerable to a new coronavirus variant that sparks another COVID-19 surge.Īsked when the public health emergency might defensibly end, Dr. But ending the health emergency could leave us vulnerable These watchdogs want to see many of the pandemic’s strictures and financial supports remain in place until permanent steps have been taken to fix the racial and ethnic health inequities exposed by the global outbreak. The doctors, scholars and public health advocates who call themselves the People’s CDC say the real Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has abdicated its responsibility to protect the most vulnerable Americans and should be calling for continued masking in public indoor spaces, among other policies. Not everyone is welcoming Thursday’s milestone. And roughly three-quarters of those surveyed by KFF that same month said they believe the public health emergency’s end will either have a “positive impact” (27%) or “no impact” (46%) on the country overall. the highest mark since Gallup started tracking that sentiment in the summer of 2021. A Gallup Poll released in March found that 49% think the pandemic is “over” in the U.S. Almost every state, territory and tribal entity in the country has declared its health crisis over and rescinded most of the special powers granted to local health departments during the pandemic.Īmericans generally seem fine with that.
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