American researchers believe that the U.S. government could avoid about 54 thousand deaths in the country due to the infection with the novel coronavirus, had started to introduce sanitary measures two weeks earlier

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The researchers concluded that may 3 in the United States from diseases caused by coronavirus, died 65 307 people. Scientists believe that if these restrictions imposed a week earlier to may 3 in the country would have died by 36 thousand people. If the measures adopted two weeks earlier, death would have avoided 54 thousand people, the researchers note

Sen Pei, Sasikiran Kandula and Jeffrey Shaman, Columbia University

American researchers believe that the U.S. government could avoid about 54 thousand deaths in the country due to the infection with the novel coronavirus, had started to introduce sanitary measures two weeks earlier. This was reported by the newspaper The New York Times.

Scientists from Columbia University under the guidance of infectious disease specialist Jeffrey Sheiman has developed a computer model that, in their opinion, allows to assess the effect of the introduced in the United States measures to prevent the spread of the virus.

The researchers concluded that may 3 in the United States from diseases caused by coronavirus, died 65 307 people. Scientists believe that if these restrictions imposed a week earlier to may 3 in the country would have died by 36 thousand people. If the measures adopted two weeks earlier, death would have avoided 54 thousand people, the researchers note.

“It’s a big, big difference, stated Saman. A small amount of time in the growing stage of the [number of cases] plays a crucial role from the point of view of reducing mortality”. Scientists also warn the US government against too rapid withdrawal of sanitary norms, which can lead to a sharp increase in mortality.

The US accounts for a record number of infections and deaths since the beginning of the outbreak of coronavirus have been detected there more than half a million infected COVID-19, almost 93.5 thousand infected died. The total number of victims of coronavirus, according to scientists, at the end of April exceeded the number of victims of the Korean, Vietnam and First world war. While intelligence warned the U.S. President about the possibility of the epidemic in January-February this year, but the then head of state did not take it seriously.

On 15 may, the President of the United States Donald trump announced that American scientists started working on a vaccine against coronavirus in January.

“Then people did not know what was going on around, and we have already begun to develop a vaccine, not even knowing what we’re up against,” added trump, saying that the pandemic coronavirus should put an end in China before the virus spread to the rest of the world. He thanked the scientists for their efforts, and expressed hope that the vaccine will be ready by the end of the year.

Earlier this week, the U.S. biotech company Moderna announced the positive results of the testing of vaccines against coronaviruses in humans. In the first phase of the study, the vaccine proved to safe and all side effects were temporary and resolved spontaneously, serious side effects were not. The final stage of clinical trials to be held in July.

Meanwhile, the Minister of health Alex Azar entrusted to the world health organization responsible for a large number of victims during a pandemic coronavirus. “This organization has been unable to obtain information that was needed by the world, and this failure has resulted in many victims,” Azar said in a speech at the session of the world health Assembly of the who.