Podcasts Health Dr. Howard Smith Oncall Impact Of New CoVid Strains In New York City

Impact Of New CoVid Strains In New York City

Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 9:29 p.m.

 

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/OQPq8QFXW9o

 

New CoVid variants with an estimated 56% greater transmissibility would trigger a 3 fold rise in daily CoVid infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in the absence of an effective vaccination program.  Researchers at NYU predict this public health disaster with a mathematical model that  determines how strategic vaccination can avoid this bloodbath.

 

Their numbers predict that we must be vaccinating 150,000 New York City residents per day by January 21st in order to offset the effects of the more powerful CoVid strains.  The sad fact is that only 24,000 vaccinations per day have taken place.

 

We must ramp vaccinations to avoid 8,000 more dead New Yorkers by the end of June.

 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.29.21250710v1.full.pdf

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-vaccines.page

 

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