Corona virus
infections have been increasing but the rejuvenate scene has so far manifested
peculiarly less malignant than the original pandemic.
Mr. Jayaprakash Muliyil says corona virus
infections are rising expeditiously in the country, and the surprisingly low
death rate could be misleading.
According to WHO (World Health
Organization) globally, as of 3:59 pm CEST, 12 September 2020, there have been
28,329,790 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 911,877 deaths, and in India
there are about 4,659,984 are the confirmed cases in which 77,427 are the
number of deaths.
Why Are Numbers Rising?
One of the main reason
why numbers are continue to spike is because healthcare providers are gaining
access to more testing supplies.
The majority of
tests were administered, due to improved access to testing materials. Before
this, only people with severe symptoms were being tested.
As our testing
ability becomes more readily available, we are going to be testing people with
much milder symptoms,” said Dr. Eric Cioe-Pena, director of global health at North well Health in New Hyde Park, New
York.
A second reason
why numbers will continue to climb is that there’s a 2-week incubation period
for COVID-19. This means it can take up to 2 weeks for symptoms to even appear.
We need to let the
virus incubation period pass at least once or twice to start seeing the
downstream effects on social distancing,” Cioe-Pena added. “We’d expect to see
an effect in 1 to 2 weeks, assuming the numbers and types of people we test
stay the same.
What is Social Distancing and Why It Matters?
Basically COVID-19
is a virus which spreads from person to person. In fact, it can be spread
between people who are up to 6 feet away from one another.
So, it’s important
to keep in mind that even though you may feel fine, you can still be a carrier
of the virus and transmit it to others.
When COVID-19
patient cough or sneeze, they produce respiratory droplets that can be
microscopic. If those droplets touch another person’s mouth or nose, then the
virus can enter that person’s respiratory system, exposing them to the virus.
People may even be
epizootic before they manifest any symptoms.
One of the most efficacious ways to slow the spread of COVID-19 is
social distancing. That means you should avoid crowds and put distance between
yourself and other people. Even though it is slow to take off, this is
something medical professionals expect and have prepared for.
“We don’t expect
to see immediate results with social distancing,” said Dr. Vanessa Raabe, an infectious disease allergy and immunology specialist at NYU Langone
Health in New York.
Social distancing won’t
bring transmission down to zero, but eventually it will lessen the transmissions
that are ongoing.
Keeping Hospitals Functioning?
To stop the spread
of transmission of virus we are doing social distancing but the reason we need
to stop the spread of transmission is to keep occupancy at hospitals not only manageable
but safe and functional.
Social isolation is
a state of complete or near-complete lack of contact between an individual and
society and it’s the only realistic way to avert this. Medications help only a
little, and a vaccine is more than a year away.
It’s also
important to remember that we aren’t doing social distancing only to keep
ourselves healthy. We’re doing this not out of fear, but to protect people we
care about,” Raabe said.
People who have
diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiac disease they are more at risk. If you’re
staying at home it’s going to prevent them from contracting a life-threatening
illness, that’s why we’re doing it. We’re doing it to save each other.
Are COVID-19 Death Rates Decreasing?
Most statistics
indicate that the mortality rate reported for COVID-19 has declined.
However,
conceivably the greatest decline in mortality rates is the result of being
better able to identify who has been infected with the virus. This increase in
identification of infections has increased the size of the denominator, while
the numerator has remained relatively unchanged.
To better
understand how the mortality rate amongst patients with COVID-19 in the ICU has
changed, the researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis
looking at 24 observational studies.
They examined the
health outcomes of 10,150 patients and identified a massive drop in the
mortality rate recorded in ICUs across the globe.
Additionally,
acute respiratory distress symptom (ARDS) which is a severe lung complication
some patients with COVID-19 experience is known to have a mortality rate
of 40 trusted source to 60 percent, according to Siner.
Siner says the
mortality rate for patients severely ill with COVID-19 and ARDS is influenced
by how severe the lung damage is, if other organs like the kidneys and brain
are injured or inflamed, and whether the patient has other health problems.
Is the Virus Becoming Less Deadly?
Most viruses tend
to lose their most lethal attributes because they gain nothing from killing their
host. This could be happening with COVID-19. But some researches disagree, saying
this process is unlikely to be happening so quickly.
Written by – Mahak
Edited by – Adrija
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