Why coronavirus deaths remain low in the US despite surge in new cases
Advances in a number of treatments appears to have contained the death rate as records continue to be broken for new infections
By Josie Ensor New York 17 July 2020 • 12:00pm
Dr Joseph Varon has never seen so many patients in his intensive care unit. Most of the beds are occupied by cases of Covid-19.
But although his hospital in Houston, Texas, has found itself in the new epicentre of the US outbreak, he is not as worried as you might imagine.
“Our ward is full of coronavirus patients, but we’ve had amazing success in treating them,” said Dr Varon, chief medical officer at United Memorial Medical Center. “Around 95 per cent of people who have come in here have walked out.”...
