A room doctor and researcher said the novel coronavirus is a “terrible echo” of a flu pandemic from more than 100 years ago.
Dr Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, told Friday’s America’s Newsroom that a study he co-authored and published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open explains how COVID-19 could be “even worse than the 1918 flu pandemic.
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“COVID-19 and 1918 H1N1, the Spanish flu, belong sort of in the same conversation,” explained Faust, who is also an instructor at Harvard Medical School. “And over the next six months, we’re going to tell you just how close they really are.”
The emergency room doctor said he believes the investigation will show people “why we are going to such great lengths” to stop the spread of the virus.
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“It’s hard to do these things like wearing a mask and not seeing your family and not doing the things we love,” he said, “but when I think we just understand how unusual this moment is , makes the kind of some offerings just a little easier for the moment.
Looking back on the answer, Faust first said that people thought it would just stay in China, then it came in New York and elsewhere.
“It’s very human, to say, ‘Oh, that’s not here, that’s not my problem,’ but what we’re showing in this research is that if it happens fast and you do not respond in time, we not knowing enough, really amazing bad things can happen, “he said.
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Faust, who trained in New York, recalled that many of his colleagues in New York were overwhelmed by COVID-19 in the spring.
“New York City had 70% percent deaths, just per capita, like 102 years ago,” he said. “I think people do not realize that, and it’s an even bigger baseline leap, because we live in a healthier world today.”
