The expert reassured the Russians. The coronavirus pandemic in Russia continues to gain momentum. However, according to the doctor and TV presenter Elena Malysheva, COVID-19 is not so terrible. Most people do not have symptoms or are mild, she said. And mortality from the virus has dropped by 3-4 times since the beginning of spring. The risks of dying are generally low. The average risk of dying in people of different ages is 0.04%. This is about the same as the seasonal flu. The risk of dying if you are under 65 is 6 to 249 per million. That is, less than the risk of dying from a lightning strike, - said Malysheva. Elena Malysheva noted that infant mortality from coronavirus is minimal. “The typical flu season kills five times as many children,” the TV presenter said. She stressed that the opening of schools did not affect the number of infected children. Moreover, according to Malysheva, those children who are in isolation become infected four times more often. The doctor recalled that there are medicines and antivirals for coronavirus in Russia. At the same time, the risk of reinfection is very low. Today, there are only 24 such cases of reinfection in the world out of 49 million people in whom this virus has been detected, the doctor concluded. Read all the latest coronavirus news here. Photo: Visualrian.ru / Sergey Guneev
