The number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States exceeds 800,000 Major deaths 'could have been avoided': US passes 800,000 Covid deaths – highest in the world

Source: China Daily

Under the ravages of delta and Omicron, the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States exceeded 800,000 on December 14. The United States has become the country with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world. Although the United States accounts for only 4% of the world's population, COVID-19 deaths account for 15% of the world's total COVID-19 deaths.

Test tubes labelled 'COVID-19 Test Positive' are seen in front of displayed words 'OMICRON SARS-COV-2' in this illustration taken December 11, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

The US death toll from Covid-19 has passed 800,000, a once-unimaginable figure seen as doubly tragic given that more than 200,000 of those lives were lost after vaccines became available last spring.

The death toll of COVID-19 in the United States has exceeded 800,000 a few days ago, and considering that more than 200,000 of them died after the vaccine was launched this spring, this once unimaginable figure looks particularly sad.

The figure represents the highest reported toll of any country in the world, and is likely even higher.

This figure represents the U.S. as the country with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world, and the real number of deaths may be even higher.

The US accounts for approximately 4% of the world’s population but about 15% of the 5.3 million known deaths from the coronavirus since the outbreak began two years ago.

The U.S. population accounts for only about 4 percent of the world's population, but since the outbreak broke out two years ago, the U.S. has accounted for 15 percent of the total number of COVID-19 deaths (5.3 million) globally.

The grim milestone comes as the world braces for rise in cases of the new Omicron variant, with the World Health Organization (WHO) warning it was spreading at an unprecedented rate.

At this critical juncture, the world is busy dealing with the increasing number of infections with the new variant of Omicron. The World Health Organization has warned that the Omiljung virus is spreading at an unprecedented rate.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Tuesday the variant had been detected in 77 countries and was probably present in most countries worldwide.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on December 14 that the Omiljung strain had been found in 77 countries and that it was likely to have spread to most countries around the world.

Omicron, first detected by South Africa and reported to the WHO on 24 November, has a large number of mutations, which has concerned scientists. The new variant is posing a fresh threat as it gains a foothold in the US, though experts are not yet sure how dangerous it is.

Scientists are concerned that the Strain of Omikejung, first discovered in South Africa and reported to WHO on 24 November, contains a large number of mutations. The invasion of the new strain has created a new threat, and experts are not sure how dangerous the strain really is.

The number of Covid deaths in the US, compiled and released by Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, is about equal to the population of Atlanta and St Louis combined, or Minneapolis and Cleveland put together. It is roughly equivalent to how many Americans die each year from heart disease or stroke.

According to a report compiled and released by Johns Hopkins University on December 14, the number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States is roughly equivalent to the population of the two cities of Atlanta and St. Louis combined, or the combined population of Minneapolis and Cleveland, and the number of people who die of heart disease or stroke in the United States each year is about the same.

A closely watched forecasting model from the University of Washington projects a total of over 880,000 reported deaths in the US by 1 March.

A university of Washington projection model that keeps a close eye on the outbreak shows that by March 1 next year, the number of COVID-19 deaths reported in the United States will exceed 880,000.

The deadly milestone comes as cases and hospitalisations are on the rise again in the US, a spike driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, which arrived in the first half of 2021 and now accounts for nearly all infections.

At a time when the number of new crown deaths in the United States exceeded 800,000, the number of confirmed cases and hospitalizations in the United States has risen again, and the culprit is the ultra-contagious Delta variant that invaded the United States in the first half of 2021, and almost all cases in the United States are currently infected with Delta virus.

Health experts lament that many of the deaths in the US were especially heartbreaking because the widely available and effective vaccines made them preventable.

Health experts lament that the many deaths in the United States are particularly heartbreaking because effective COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed everywhere and these deaths could have been prevented.

About 200 million Americans are fully vaccinated, or just over 60% of the population. That is well short of what scientists say is needed to keep the virus in check.

About 200 million Americans have now been vaccinated, just over 60 percent of the U.S. population. This vaccination rate is far below what scientists believe is needed to curb the spread of the virus.

'Almost all the people dying are now dying preventable deaths,” said Dr Chris Beyrer, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “And that’s because they’re not immunized.”

Dr Chris Beyler, an epidemiologist at johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, said: "Almost all deaths caused by COVID-19 could have been prevented now. And that's precisely because these people are not vaccinated. ”

When the vaccine was first rolled out, the country’s death toll stood at about 300,000. It hit 600,000 in mid-June and 700,000 on 1 October.

When the COVID-19 vaccine was first introduced, the number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States was about 300,000. The death toll reached 600,000 in mid-June, and the death toll exceeded 700,000 on October 1.

Beyrer recalled that in March or April 2020, one of the worst-case scenarios projected upwards of 240,000 American deaths.

In March and April 2020, Beyler recalled, the worst-case scenario predicted was for 240,000 Americans to die of COVID-19.

'And I saw that number, and I thought that is incredible – 240,000 American deaths?” he said.

He said: "At the time, I saw that the number was incredible, 240,000 Americans died? ”

'And we’re now past three times that number.” He added: “And I think it’s fair to say that we’re still not out of the woods.”

"And now the death toll is more than three times that number," he added, "and I think it's perfectly fair to say that we're not out of danger yet." ”

Source: The Guardian

Translator & Editor: Dani