A new study of health crises in New York City finds that this year's COVID-19 pandemic may have been more deadly than even the killer flu outbreak of 1918.
epidemic and the two months encompassing the height of this year's COVID-19 outbreak , researchers said the latter may have been the more lethal.
Faust's group found that during the two"peak" pandemic months of 1918, about 31,600 New Yorkers perished from any cause, out of a total population of 5.5 million. In 2020, during the peak two months of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the rate was smaller -- about 33,500 deaths in a population of almost 8.3 million.
So when the researchers factored out"improvements in hygiene and modern achievements in medicine, public health and safety" occurring over the past century, COVID-19 actually hit New Yorkers harder compared to the 1918 pandemic, based on death rates.In fact, because of modern lifesaving technologies and drugs,"it is unknown how many deaths due to SARS-CoV-2 infection have been prevented," the study authors said.
A"prudent" return to such measures could"prevent the exhaustion of essential supplies of lifesaving resources in the coming weeks and beyond," Faust and his colleagues believe.
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