You are twice as likely to die from coronavirus if you live here, the study says
The area you call the house could have an effect on how a brush with Covid-19 could play.
There is no one state in the United States that has not experienced difficulties and tragic loss in the hands of the Pandemic of Covid. AsEpidemics propagate cities In rural areas of the country, it has become clear that no zone was safe from potential infection. But different places affect how a brush with deadly disease will be played? According to a new NPR report,You are twice as likely to die of coronavirus if you live in a big city.
To find that, journalists analyzed data fromCOVID-19 Linked Deaths from Johns Hopkins University and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), comparing large cities, medium cities and small towns or rural areas. They discovered that on the 100,000 first deaths in the United States, a reference that the country strikes at the end of May, 77,000 of them occurred in major metropolitan areas. Meanwhile, the 100,000 registered dead have seen more than half of the victims in large cities, with at least 56,000 reported. This means that 66.5% of total deaths since the first time the virus has reached the United States among the inhabitants of the urban, while 33.5% were in other areas, making city dwellers twice as far away. to die of Covid.
NPR points out that the largest metropolitan area in the country, New York City, has been the website of30,000 of the first 100,000 deaths Covid in the countryside. A study conducted at the end of June also found thatThe COVID mortality rate in New York During this period amounted to 1.45%, more than the double rate of 0.7% observed in countries such as France and China at the time.
Of course, New York City was an early epicenter of the pandemic in the United States - and at that time there was also less to understand how to treat the virus, which led to more deaths.
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In the research of the NPR, medium-sized cities recorded the largest increase of the 100,000 registered dead, doubling from 15,000 to 30,000 in the last set of data, especially instates hard affected Like Arizona, Florida, California and Texas.
"None of us live in a bubble. We will interact with each other rural, urban, no matter, "Ali Mokdad, MD, epidemiologist at the Institute of Metric of Health and Evaluation at the University of Washington, told the NPR. "People live far, are less likely to see each other, but we have events that gather us. And the cases follow that." And if you think you have Covid, checkThese are the 51 most common covid symptoms you might have.
