COVID Is Still Here
By PAUL NATINSKY
Despite perceptions to the contrary, the COVID 19 pandemic is not over. Notwithstanding the return of crowds, the diminishment of mask wearers and the back-page treatment of pandemic news, the virus continues to circulate and the risk of resurgence looms.
“We’re certainly not done with it. We still have nationally a few hundred people a day dying from COVID. If you look at the overall mortality numbers, it’s still multiple times the number of deaths we see, say, from influenza. So it certainly has not faded into the background,” said Dr. Justin Skrzynski, a hospitalist with BHSH System, who has worked with COVID patients since the pandemic began.
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