2Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
3Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond
4Center on Society and Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
5Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
6Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland JAMA. Published online May 10, 2021. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.4073
Market Leader in Digestive Health Enzymedica Expands New Scientific Advisory Board, Adding Prominent Gastroenterologist and Integrative Medicine Expert Dr. Marvin Singh
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Dr. Singh, who is board-certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine as well as a Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Medicine, will lend his deep expertise to the Enzymedica board. He joins its team of natural health and wellness experts who will support the company’s innovative education, research and product development efforts.
Dr. Singh is double-board certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Medicine.
“Our vision and Dr. Singh’s philosophy are well-aligned – to help individuals feel well, obtain their health goals and take control of their lives,” said Scott Sensenbrenner, President & CEO of Enzymedica.
Many Deaths During the Pandemic Were Simply Due to Lack of Access to Health Care
Patients rest in a hallway in the overloaded Emergency Room area at Providence St. Mary Medical Center on January 27, 2021, in Apple Valley, California.
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In calculating its human toll, a pandemic is similar to a war. The most precise way public health researchers can get a handle on the impact of something like COVID-19 is to compare the number of total deaths recorded in a specific place during the pandemic with death tallies from prior years.
That analysis will yield a figure known as “excess deaths” which simply means deaths above and beyond what would normally be expected.
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US “excess deaths” in 2020 surpassed the toll during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic
According to a report published Friday by the
New York Times, in 2020 the United States suffered the biggest single-year surge in its death rate since the federal government began publishing statistics, significantly surpassing the rise in the death rate during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.
Workers burying bodies in a mass grave on Hart Island, April 9, 2020. (Credit: AP Photo/John Minchillo)
The
Times conducted its own analysis of annual US death rates going back a century and found that the rate jump from 2019 to 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, was 16 percent, as compared to the 12 percent surge in the US during the global pandemic that occurred over a century ago. The total number of COVID-19 deaths in the US is already approaching 600,000, on track to surpass the 675,000 estimated to have been killed in the US during the 1918 pandemic.