More than half of COVID-19 patients in New York City hospitals are not seriously ill with the virus, while the remainder are hospitalized for another condition rather than the virus, a sign that pandemic numbers may have exploded in recent months, according to official figures.
State data shows that of the 670 patients marked Friday as infected, just over two-fifths — or 43.7 percent — were hospitalized for illness, with the rest coming to a ward for another condition, such as a fracture. leg, however, was later discovered to be infected.
He suggests that most “Covid” patients in US hospitals are no longer essentially people suffering from the disease. However, Columbia University epidemiologist Dr. Experts, including Jessica Justman, warned that these cases still continue to strain the hospital system.
The percentage of Covid patients hospitalized for the virus has increased in recent weeks from a low of 35% at the end of April, but is now less than half in more than three months. Since the beginning of March, less than 100 Covid patients are in intensive care, the most serious.
The United States is currently facing a growing COVID-19 outbreak with cases increasing nationwide since mid-April, currently reaching an average of 87,000 cases per day, up 19% from 73,000 seven days ago.
It is now powered by an even more infectious version of Omicron called BA.2.12.1, which is responsible for half of all infections nationwide. It is already the dominant variety in New York and New Jersey.
Despite the rise in infections, the number of Covid deaths in the United States is falling, about 374 each day, almost a third less than 551 on average a week ago. This is roughly on par with last summer, when vaccines were widely distributed.
According to state data, less than half of Covid patients in New York City were hospitalized with the virus. According to statistics, this figure has remained below 50 percent since the beginning of February.
Above is the number of infections reported each day in the United States. The number of cases is now around 86,000 in 24 hours
However, the death toll from the virus continued to fall. They’re down about a third yesterday compared to last week, and now there are about 374 each day.
Data released by the New York State Department of Health included the number of Covid patients hospitalized for serious virus-related complications, and the number of Covid patients who came to the ward for another problem, such as a fall, but later tested positive. .
Of the 670 Covid patients currently in the wards, 293 were hospitalized for the virus and 377 tested positive but were hospitalized for another reason.
The city’s share of infected “Covid” patients has slightly increased from last week, but has remained well below half of all patients since the beginning of February.
Underlying every case in the United States, Omicron is much milder than previous variants, making it less likely to cause serious illness.
Scientists, including a JAMA Open Network study, found that about 40 percent of infections are asymptomatic or cause no symptoms.
New York is currently at a “moderate” Covid alert level, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which recommend that people continue to wear masks on public transport.
But city health councilor Ashwin Vasan has threatened to raise this ‘high’ if the city reaches more than 20 Covid admissions per 100,000 people, to return masks in all public places and limit gatherings to a small number of people. .
It is currently at 9.2 and has been rising steadily since the beginning of April.
Mayor Eric Adam’s office said on Monday: Bloomberg: “New York is poised to reach a potentially high level of Covid warning in the coming days and strongly encourages all New Yorkers to disguise themselves in public confines to protect themselves and others.” .
The guide adds: “If New York’s alert level gets too high, the city will consider the mask requirement in all closed public settings.”
New York state now has the eighth largest Covid outbreak in the country with around 48 cases per 100,000 people, but 77% of people were bitten completely, one of the highest vaccination rates in the country.
Experts warn that despite the numbers, the city must remain vigilant against the virus.
Justman told DailyMail.com: “I don’t think the city needs to raise the threshold” [for activating a high Covid alert level]†
“The CDC hospital admission threshold should be considered along with other indicators to assess transmission in the community.”
He noted the CDC’s guidance on Covid alert levels, which states that the current number of Covid hospitalizations reflects the pressure on hospitals “regardless of the cause of hospital care.”
Dr. Denis Nash, a public health expert at the City University of New York, agrees that warnings that the city could reach a high Covid alert level are not exaggerated.
He told DailyMail.com: “NYC wants to be in a place where we can handle the massive increases in SARS-CoV-2 transmission like we’re experiencing right now, without the accompanying spikes in hospitalizations and deaths.
“But the truth is we don’t know if we’re there and we may not know until it’s too late.
“So I think it makes sense for our health commissioner to consider this and other steps to help reduce risk for New Yorkers.”
America is currently facing a growing Covid epidemic; One in five states, including Mississippi, Missouri, Arizona, Louisiana, South Carolina, Delaware, Idaho, Connecticut, Iowa, and Utah, have more than doubled their cases in the past two weeks.
The states with the highest infection rates are Rhode Island (72 cases per 100,000 people), Massachusetts (61), and Hawaii (57). At the other end of the scale are Alabama (7), Arkansas (7), Wyoming (7) and South Dakota (7).
But there are serious concerns about the accuracy of the data, as the vast majority of states no longer report Covid data every day. Florida reports them monthly.
It comes after a study warns that children born during the pandemic are not reaching milestones in language development on time.
About one-third of primary school students “need extensive support to become expert readers” due to disruptions caused by COVID-19, the researchers say.
Two other recent studies found that children born as a result of a pandemic are also at higher risk of school failure because parents fail to include their babies and toddlers in their “developmentally critical” conversations of the language.
Conversations related to language development, such as back and forth dialogue, are critical to reading skills, according to Forbes.
Source: Daily Mail
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