The former director-general of the Ministry of Health, prof. Yoram Lass, stunned the public when he said COVID-19 “is the flu with excellent public relations” in March 2020 and expressed his objections to the health prescriptions that the government has instituted to limit the infection rate. it turns out that researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston found Lass to be quite wrong, and the virus was six times more deadly than flu.
The study compared 1052 patients with influenza and 582 patients with COVID-19 and found that more people needed hospital care on average if they were infected with the new coronavirus (582) compared to those suffering from influenza (210). About 30% among those suffering from COVID-19 needed mechanical ventilation, while only 8% among those with influenza needed such treatment. The death toll among those suffering from the new coronavirus was much higher – 20% – compared to a mortality rate of 3% among those infected with influenza.
Furthermore, COVID-19 patients were on average younger than those suffering from influenza, and when they needed mechanical ventilation, they tended to stay in care longer – an average duration of two weeks compared to three days, reported news-medical.net Friday. . COVID-19 patients also reported less pre-existing conditions that would require such an intense form of intervention.
Nearly all deaths from COVID-19, 98%, were the direct or indirect result of the new coronavirus, writes Dr. Michael Donnino, one of the authors of the article. He stressed that this means that people die due to COVID-19, not while they had it. This is crucial because many people have argued online and during protests that the death toll is allegedly “fabricated” and that hospitals are being encouraged to report false data. to emerge in a September Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which states that 6% among COVID-19 deaths cite COVID-19 as the direct and sole cause, the science portal Midaat pointed out. The authors of the study also noted that the mortality rates of COVID-19 would have been much higher than their study showed, without the social distance and wearing of measures.
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The study was originally in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
With the exception of a small group in the Israeli public who accepted conspiracy theories about COVID-19, most Israelites rejected Lass’ theories.