New York's Coronavirus Death Rate Decreased 22%

Fewer New Yorkers are dying from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus than health experts had anticipated, a new study led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. This new investigation showed that by mid-August 2020, the death rate in those hospitalized in New York with coronavirus-related illness had dropped from 27% to about 3% points.

According to the findings, the likelihood of death was on average 22 percentage points lower in August than in March, for most critically ill patients.

The NYU Grossman School of Medicine study press release issued on October 22, 2020, showed that a younger, healthier group of people were getting infected and were arriving at the hospital with less-severe symptoms than those infected in the Spring of 2020.

Lead author Leora Horwitz, M.D. stated: "Even in the absence of a silver-bullet treatment or vaccine, we are protecting more of our patients through a host of small changes."