Flu, COVID-19 and Halloween: How to prepare for a triple-threat this fall.

South Carolina mother, daughter die from COVID-19 weeks apart.

Flu, COVID-19 and Halloween: How to prepare for a triple-threat this fall.

On Monday, 868 new cases of coronavirus in NC, 897 people in hospitals being treated for it, 30% of them in ICU.

— North Carolina reported 868 new cases of coronavirus on Monday, when reports are typically lower than on other days of the week.

Across the state, 897 people are being treated for COVID-19 in the hospital, with 30% of those in intensive care units.

The nearly 1 million people around the world who have lost their lives to COVID-19 have left us a gift: Through desperate efforts to save their lives, scientists now better understand how to treat and prevent the disease — and millions of others may survive.

Several drugs have proved useful and doctors know more about how to care for the sickest patients in hospitals, he said.

The nearly 1 million deaths attributed to the coronavirus in nine months are far more than the 690,000 from AIDS or the 400,000 from malaria in all of 2019.

The United States “has been the worst-hit country in the world” with more than 7 million coronavirus infections and more than 200,000 deaths, reflecting “the lack of success that we have had in containing this outbreak,” Dr.

It’s not just old people in nursing homes who are dying, Fauci stressed.

“Nobody should make a mistake about this” and think they’re not at risk just because they may not personally know someone who has died or haven’t witnessed what the virus can do firsthand, he said

Although cases are rising, death rates seem to be falling, said Dr

The virus’s true lethality — the infection fatality rate — isn’t yet known, because scientists don’t know how many people have had it without showing symptoms

What’s often reported are case fatality rates — the portion of people who have tested positive and then gone on to die

cumulative case fatality rate in April was around 5%

Now we’re around 3%,” Shahpar said

In England, researchers reported that case fatality rates have fallen substantially since peaking in April

One reason is changing demographics: More cases these days are in younger people who are less likely to die from their infection than older people are

Increased testing also is playing a role: As more people with mild or no symptoms are detected, it expands the number of known infections and shrinks the proportion that prove fatal, Shahpar said

It’s clear that treatments also are affecting survival, many doctors said

People who have died from COVID-19, especially ones who took part in studies, have helped reveal what drugs do or do not help

Aside from drugs, “the case fatality rate is actually improving over time as physicians get more adept at taking care of these very sick patients,” said Dr

In hospitals, doctors know more now about ways to avoid using breathing machines, such as keeping patients on their bellies

If more people stick with common-sense measures like closing bars, “we should improve our ability to manage this” and prevent more deaths, Shahpar said