[165] Update (from July 2020) on COVID-19 by Tanya Albert Henry

… Last week, the U.S. had about 50,000 newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases daily, with about 600 deaths reported each day. At its height this spring, about 30,000 newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases were reported daily, along with about 2,500 deaths.

There are three things driving the lower death ratio, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, told viewers during a JAMA Network™ in the COVID-19 pandemic.

First, the people now initially getting diagnosed are about a decade and a half younger than those who were initially being diagnosed in the spring, said Dr. Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Data shows that the disease is less fatal for younger people.

Second, he said, we now know how devastating the disease can be for the elderly and those with underlying conditions. He said nursing homes are protecting residents much better now than they were earlier in the pandemic and that the nation is doing a better job of protecting the elderly and those with underlying conditions in their own homes. …

NKO: In Norway, and probably in the USA also, the total number of deaths per year, is lower now than before the corona pandemic. Strangely the corona has saved lives, so to speak.