SARS-CoV-2 also seems to cause heart damage, kidney damage, and, possibly, brain damage. But any such reductions appear to be outweighed by increases in other causes of deaths.“The extent of damage from the virus may be greater than we anticipated, and the indirect effects of the virus may be greater than we anticipated,” said Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist and professor at Yale Medical School.The overall rise in deaths suggests that the combination of crowded hospitals, an overtaxed ambulance system and a fearful population could have resulted in more deaths among people with heart attacks, strokes or other ailments who might have survived in normal circumstances.The measurements in our chart rely on a New York Times analysis of.The recent numbers are most likely an undercount.

Flu season occurs primarily from October through May.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conduct studies each year to determine how effective each year's vaccine is at protecting against influenza. The highest tally during a single week was 18,252 in 2017-18.So far this flu season, there have been a total of 106,824 influenza cases reported in New York, with three flu-associated pediatric deaths, which is on track to surpass the 1998-99 season.Last week alone, 1,993 New Yorkers were hospitalized with lab-confirmed influenza. There have been a total of 121,088 lab-confirmed cases reported in New York State this season. Even in normal times, death certificates take time to be processed and collected, and complete death tallies can take weeks to become final. In 1918, for example, New York City had a population of 5.2 million, and a weekly peak death toll of 5,222. Fatalities totaling 231 took the tally beyond 4,000, more than the past three flu seasons combined, Governor Phil Murphy said Saturday at a press briefing.Pennsylvania reported 80 new deaths, its highest daily toll. She previously worked at amNewYork, the New York Daily News and the Asbury Park Press covering politics, government and general assignment.11 confirmed cases across the country for the new coronavirus believed to have originated in China,4 killed, 2 hurt in wrong-way crash on Southern State, police say,Temporary school closings continue; NY adds five states to travel quarantine,Longtime country-club chef opens eatery in Bethpage,MTA watchdog: Worker responded to fire calls on LIRR time,Site of crash no stranger to fatal collisions,Confirmed flu cases in the United States: At least 19 million,Influenza-associated deaths in children: 68,Confirmed flu cases in New York State: 72,385,Confirmed flu cases in Nassau County: 3,175,Confirmed flu cases in Suffolk County: 3,774. The city’s medical examiner’s office is holding.Robert A. Jensen, the chairman of Kenyon International, a firm that helps communities respond to major disasters and attacks, said the scale of the event would leave a lasting mark on the city.“The reminders will be cemeteries,” he said, describing European burial areas devoted to victims of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.

The state now has 31,069 cases, up 1,628 on Saturday.In New York, Cuomo cited positive signs of lower emergency room and intensive care admissions, as well as fewer people placed on ventilators. Kevin Reiter, associate medical director of Northwell Health Go Health Urgent Care, said staffers are handling lots of questions about coronavirus while the centers are busy with patients who have the flu.“We are definitely seeing an uptick over the last week or two in flu activity on Long Island,” said Reiter, who oversees the urgent care centers in Nassau County. “The people we are seeing are mostly unvaccinated. That also means that they do not include the last few days, when the highest number of coronavirus deaths so far have been recorded in the city.Death from some causes, like car accidents, may be down at a time when many people are staying at home to prevent the spread of the virus. New York is facing its worst flu season in decades while the international public-health focus remained affixed to the new coronavirus that remained largely contained to China.There were 17,233 confirmed flu cases reported to health officials in New York during the week ending Feb. 8, a record-setting pace.It was the second-highest weekly total since the 1998-1999 flu season, which is when the state first started tracking the data, according to state officials. Even this is only a partial count; we.These numbers contradict the notion that many people who are dying from the new virus would have died shortly anyway. data. About 1,150 were classified as having died of COVID-19, and 23,729 were classified as having died of the flu or pneumonia.About 5.2% of all of the Americans who died in February and March of this year died of the flu or pneumonia.The COVID-19 numbers for 2020 are best compared with the pneumonia and flu death total just for March 2018, because almost all of the COVID-19 deaths took place this past March.In general, if all types of flu and pneumonia deaths combined were about as common this past March as in March 2020, one would expect the new pneumonia death figures to roughly twice as big as the March 2018 flu and pneumonia death totals.The percentage of death resulting from flu or pneumonia from Feb. 1 through March 28 ranged from 3.3%, in Rhode Island, to 7.6%, in New York state.At this point, the COVID-19 death rate does not appear to be comparable to the death rate recorded during the 1918 flu pandemic. Data for the 2020-21 influenza season will resume in mid-October.