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As infections soar in the third major wave this year, experts say Covid may never settle into a seasonal cycle

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The study involving 43,128 patients reported that death rates may yet be reduced further through vaccination programmes. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters The study involving 43,128 patients reported that death rates may yet be reduced further through vaccination programmes. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters Tue 2 Feb 2021 04.32 EST Last modified on Tue 2 Feb 2021 07.23 EST Death rates among people who end up in intensive care with Covid-19 have improved dramatically since the start of the pandemic thanks to advances in treatment, new research has found. The proportion of those worst affected by ...

Death rates among people who end up in intensive care with Covid-19 have improved dramatically since the start of the pandemic thanks to advances in treatment, new research has found. The proportion of those worst affected by the disease who die from it has fallen from 60% when it first appeared early last year to 36% by October, the study of global trends shows. That drop continues a positive trend that saw the mortality of almost 60% seen at the end of March decrease to 42% at the end of May, it reports. The findings, based on 52 studies around the globe involving 43,128 patients, have be...

Last modified on Wed 3 Feb 2021 06.50 EST Vaccines may have been described as the great escape route from the Covid pandemic – but treatments, which are bringing down death rates, will be needed as much as ever in the era of jabs because the virus is not expected to go away in the foreseeable future, experts say. “It’s going to take a long time to vaccinate the world,” said Peter Horby of Oxford University, chief investigator of the Recovery trial into Covid treatments and chair of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag). “I don’t know what the esti...