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New Studies Show Major Drop in COVID-19 Mortality Rates

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Deaths have fallen among hospitalized COVID-19 patients this year, which could indicate that doctors have a better understanding of how to treat the disease and that coronavirus mitigation strategies are working.

The decline happened across all patient groups, including older adults and people with underlying conditions, according to two peer-reviewed studies that will soon be published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine and Critical Care Medicine.

The first study, shared online before publication next week in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, found that the mortality rates among 5,000 hospitalized patients in the NYU Langone Health System in New York City dropped by 18 points between March 1 and June 20. At the beginning of the study, admitted patients had a staggering 25.6 percent chance of dying; in the end, that number was at 7.6 percent. Crucially, the researchers adjusted for risk factors including age and diseases and still found that death rates dropped for all groups, even among older patients.

Another study shared online before publication in Critical Care Medicine provided similar hope for the coming season, which CDC director Robert Redfield has projected to be “one of the most difficult times that we’ve experienced in American public health.” In the United Kingdom, between the beginning of the pandemic and late June, mortality rates among hospitalized patients dropped by close to 20 percentage points. Like the study in the U.S., the drop “remains after adjustment for patient demographics and comorbidities suggesting this improvement is not due to changing patient characteristics.”

Leora Horwitz, a doctor who studies population health at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine and an author on the American study, told NPR that the change in mortality rates could be traced back to multiple public-health and medical advances in preventing and treating COVID since the pandemic began. Mask-wearing helps decrease the viral loads that people are exposed to which can result in less severe cases while doctors have learned how to identify and treat the immune-system overreactions known as cytokine storms that killed many patients in the spring. One doctor involved in the U.K. study found that keeping hospitals well below their maximum capacity helps keeps staff focused on the patients already admitted, adding more importance to the directives for people to wear masks and practice social distancing. “All of the above is often the right answer in medicine, and I think that’s the case here, too,” Horowitz said.

Despite these advancements and in the midst of a tremendous international race for a vaccine the coldest months of the year will bring increased challenges, as people inevitably gather indoors, drier winter air increases the spread of pathogens, and hospitals manage COVID patients and the seasonal rush of those sick with the flu.

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