Dr. Ashish Jha on how we've dramatically reduced COVID-19 mortality rates

How We've Dramatically Reduced COVID-19 Mortality Rates | Dr. Ashish Jha | GZERO World

"There's no doubt in my mind, when I have poured over the data, that an average person who got infected and got sick enough to be hospitalized, let's say in March, in New York, that person probably has a 30% to 50% lower likelihood of dying today. That's amazing." Public health expert Dr. Ashish Jha doesn't have much good news about the state of the pandemic today. But one area of optimism is the improved treatments that doctors and researchers have developed for a disease that we didn't even exist a year ago.

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