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New study says mortality rates have dropped 18% across all age groups...

for hospitalized patients which is really good news and shows the medical community has figured out better ways to treat COVID.

"So have death rates dropped because of improvements in treatments? Or is it because of the change in who's getting sick?

To find out, Horwitz and her colleagues looked at more than 5,000 hospitalizations in the NYU Langone Health system between March and August. They adjusted for factors including age and other diseases, such as diabetes, to rule out the possibility that the numbers had dropped only because younger, healthier people were getting diagnosed. They found that death rates dropped for all groups, even older patients by 18 percentage points on average."

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Link: Mortality Rate for Hospitalized Patients Dropped 18% Across All Age Groups

Posted: 10/21/2020 at 2:09PM

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