The vast majority of coronavirus deaths in the United States United States They could have been avoided if blockages and social distancing efforts had been implemented two weeks earlier, according to new research.
An estimate by disease modellers at Columbia University He said the death toll would have been 11,253 on May 3 had house measures been imposed on March 1. The actual mortality rate was 65,307.
The data was first published by the New York Times on Wednesday evening.
The figures concluded that installing the lockout restrictions two weeks earlier could have resulted in 54,000 fewer deaths in early May.
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In New York’s metropolitan area alone, 4,300 lives would have been saved if the restrictions had been put in place a week earlier, March 8, and had been imposed across the country.
Mayor Bill de Blasio closed schools in the city on March 15. The order to stay at the home of Governor Andrew Cuomo did not take effect until March 22.
The results are based on infectious disease models that analyze how the reduction in contact between people from mid-March slowed the spread of the virus. All models are estimates only.
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