COVID-19 death rates

Haiti's success is not due to some innovative intervention against the virus. Most people have given up wearing masks in public on the streets of Port-au-Prince and elsewhere. And Haiti hasn't yet administered a single COVID-19 vaccine.

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One Of The World's Poorest Countries Has One Of The World's Lowest COVID Death Rates

3:21pm May 04, 2021

by Jason Beaubien

As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to COVID-19 in Haiti over the course of the entire pandemic. Why has the death rate been so low?

On average, each U.S. nursing home is connected to seven others through shared staff, a study by Yale and UCLA researchers suggests. Rigorous infection control measures can curb the spread of the coronavirus, but many workers say they still don't have suf

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They Work In Several Nursing Homes To Eke Out A Living, And That May Spread The Virus

6:30pm October 26, 2020

by Jackie Fortiér

Most nursing homes are connected by shared staff to seven others. Instead of limiting workers to one facility to curb COVID-19 spread, advocates urge better pay and more PPE for nursing home staff.

COVID-19 mortality rates are going down, according to studies of two large hospital systems, partly thanks to improvements in treatment. Here, clinicians care for a patient in July at an El Centro, Calif., hospital.

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Studies Point To Big Drop In COVID-19 Death Rates

5:56pm October 20, 2020

by Geoff Brumfiel

More hospitalized patients are surviving than early in the pandemic. Improved treatments make a big difference, but so does flattening the curve to keep hospitals from overfilling, researchers say.

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