COVID-19 ICU Fatalities Drops Significantly Since Early Days Of Pandemic
COVID-19 ICU FATALITIES DROPS – The number of deaths in an ICU caused by the new coronavirus has plunged by more than a third since the pandemic began.
However, according to a research published on Tuesday, this progress may still be stalling. Before, medical staff struggled to keep up with the mass number of patients with COVID-19.
Now, new medicine and understanding of the deadly virus, along with other therapies greatly reduced the number of fatalities. According to an article from GMA, a large-scale meta-data analysis of the overall mortality rates of coronavirus patients in ICUs had dropped to 36% by October.
Afterward, an earlier analysis conducted by the same scientists revealed that the mortality rate fell from 60% in late March 2020 to 42% at the end of May.
“After our first meta-analysis last year showed a large drop in ICU mortality from Covid-19 from March to May 2020, this updated analysis shows that any fall in mortality rate between June and October 2020 appears to have flattened or plateaued“, the authors noted.
Unfortunately, despite the news about the drops in mortality rates, the medical community now faces new variants of COVID-19. Recently, British scientists announced a possibility of the UK virus variant to not only be more transmissible but also deadlier.
Additionally, the new South African coronavirus strain was also found to be more resistant to new vaccines. However, Peter Horby, who leads the Recovery trial at Oxford said new treatments and therapies may “offset any difference with this new variant“.
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