NEW YORK, April 15 – RIA Novosti, Alan Bukaty. The doctor of one of new York clinics Marlene Kaplan believes that the consequences of coronavirus in the state of new York dies about 50 thousand people.
new York is at the epicenter of the epidemic of the coronavirus. On Monday, the death toll in the state has exceeded 10 thousand, and is now 10 834. According to the Johns Hopkins University in the US confirmed approximately 608 thousand cases of coronavirus, had died almost 26 thousand people. Previously, the government, referring to one of the predictions, has noted that in the state of new York can die from coronavirus 16 thousand people.
“I Think 16 million is a very, very optimistic number. I think that will be three times more,” said Kaplan in an interview with RIA Novosti.
According to him, the reason for this is that people will develop secondary health problems. “The bodies will experience such stress in the course of the disease (coronavirus), it will new issues arise. The number dying daily now says that we will probably reach 16 thousand in the coming days,” said the doctor.
He expressed the opinion that the peak of the epidemic in the United States “either has started or is about to come”.
“I Think we will see many more deaths,” he added.
“Even if not to take into account what we already see in the world, it is probably the most serious disease of those with whom mankind had to face over the past 100 years. This is probably the most serious disease of such a plan since the “Spanish flu,” concluded Kaplan.
the world health organization on 11 March announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest who data, there have been recorded more than 1.8 million cases, more than 117 thousand people died.
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