As Evidenced by the Statistics of the Pandemic

Abstract

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, the number of infected people in the world exceeded 56 million, and the number of deaths from this infection was more than 1.3 million cases. Such figures can undoubtedly cause alarm and concern for everyone, since these indicators are the fate of people, and the current situation suggests that in the case of a particular person's illness, the outcome cannot be predicted. For a complete picture of current events, it is interesting to look at similar statistics just over 10 years ago, when bacterial forms of acute pneumonia (AP) clearly prevailed, and viral diseases were rare. The total number of cases of AP (not infected, as it is now) in the world has reached 450 million cases and 4 million deaths annually (1,2). The figures presented which are many times higher than the current ones, have not been replicated and are not even familiar to all specialists. It is not difficult to understand that, despite such a dramatic difference in indicators, modern statistics, due to their wide distribution, undoubtedly have a greater psychological impact on public opinion. However, in this context, it is not so much the informative role of statistics as the additional characteristics of the pandemic hidden in statistical figures. Analysis of the statistics of the current COVID-19 pandemic allows us to expand the understanding of this infectious invasion in a completely unexpected perspective, which goes beyond the generally accepted opinion about the nature of this phenomenon. According to statistics, most people infected with coronavirus tolerate this contact without any consequences. So, according to statistics, most infected people do without the help of medicine at all, resorting to its services only for diagnostic procedures. The total established number of coronavirus carriers is approximate and depends on the breadth of diagnostic tests, while the actual number of infected is unknown and may be significantly higher.