COVID-19: A retrospective by the numbers

Provides a rapid overview of the eight COVID-19 editorials published in DMPHP over the previous 365 days and the employ of them as a framework to follow the evolution of the Pandemic over time. A review of the salient epidemiological and clinical dimensions of COVID-19 over time is given as smartly as a dialogue of the clinical and public smartly being impacts of the disease and the interventions and insurance policies set aside aside in scheme to contain and mediate the virus.

The concluding dialogue questions the validity of the standards aged in quite so a lot of of priority groups for vaccination within the US and notes that had a uniform program supporting the immunization of all over the set aside age 65 (accounting for 80% of COVID-19 deaths), doubtlessly the most lives may maybe maybe well be spared whereas simultaneously decreasing across all socio-economic and ethnic groups. Persevering with this line of reasoning globally would offer a chance for the US to reburnish its humanitarian image through a vaccine diplomacy initiative with a aim to vaccinate the over 65 of every nation. To this level, nearly 500 million doses of vaccine had been administered; had they been targeted to the over 65 world inhabitants of some700 million, we may maybe maybe well be smartly on our capacity to a return to the frail long-established.

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