International Monetary Fund (IMF) First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath today shared a “very interesting” graph on the “deadlyness of COVID”. Sharing a post by Eric Topol, a physician-scientist on social media platform Twitter, Gopinath said: “Very interesting graph on the fatality of COVID over time relative to the flu.”
Topol shared a graph from a news report by global business news forum financial Timeswhich showed that Covid-19 has seen a decrease in fatalities during the pandemic in England.
The report attributed the low fatality in England to increased immunity among people, although it stressed that Covid-19 is still “more dangerous than the flu on average”.
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According to Topol, the data, however, is not the same for the US, which saw a high number of infections during all previous Covid waves. “The data is not the same in the US, which currently has twice the death rate than the UK, and continues to increase,” Topol said.
It has been two years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global public health emergency over the coronavirus outbreak. Even after vaccinating a large part of the population, many poor countries still lag behind in vaccinating people.
According to Reuters Data, COVID-19 infections are still on the rise in 67 countries, and there have been at least 371,075,000 reported infections and 6,007,000 deaths due to the new coronavirus so far.
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