"There are so many people who believe that this is not reality, that what you're hearing is made up or false, and I want to take them all and walk them through an ICU to see a husband and wife lying side by side intubated ... and say, "It is very real."
休斯顿拜勒医学院(the Baylor College of Medicine)国家热带医药学院院长霍特兹(Peter Hotez)认为,在家中死亡人数激增反应出新冠病毒攻击身体方式的本质。在疫情初期,医生注意的重点放在呼吸系统的症状,但在纽约及其他地方对病例的研究显示,新冠病毒也导致引发突然死亡的严重心脏问题。所以有康复病人出院回家后突然死亡,而那正是新冠病毒令人不寒而栗的后果,也是医学界要竭尽全力减慢病毒扩散的原因。