The number of people infected with the coronavirus is rising sharply in the United States. But the number of people dying is flat.
It sounds like good news. But experts warn against reading too much into it.
The number of new cases has seen a steady rise since mid-June. The seven-day average now tops 50,000. But the death toll from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, has been on a shallow decline through that period. It now averages around 500 per day.
But it takes several weeks for COVID-19 to kill, doctors note. Hospitalization numbers started to rise less than three weeks ago. They are up nearly a third since then, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
Deaths will likely follow, said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security.
"I do think that just by simple biology and mathematics, we will see death counts increase as hospitalizations and ICU bed use increase," he said.
Source : VOA
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