The anniversary serves as a depressing reminder that hundreds of Americans die every day, even as the country adjusts to its “new normal.”
Only a little more than a year ago, the country had 100,000 verified virus-related fatalities.
According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, COVID-19 has caused the death of 5.4 million Americans.
The COVID death toll in the United States is currently more than 200 times higher than the number of people killed in the September 11 terrorist strikes in the United States. It’s getting close to the total number of deaths in the United States during the 1918 influenza epidemic.
“It’s still very much alive. It is still a very severe matter that should be addressed very seriously “According to ABC News, Shamayne Cruz, a respiratory therapist at UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central in Colorado Springs,
More than 3.8 million people have died as a result of the infection worldwide. The United States, which accounts for little over 4% of the worldwide population, is responsible for over 16% of COVID-19-related fatalities. The United States of America has the greatest death toll of any country on the planet.
According to statistics compiled by Johns Hopkins University, the United States passed 500,000 documented COVID-19 fatalities on February 22.
The United States is now reporting little under 350 new coronavirus-related fatalities each day, for a total of 2,450 deaths each week, which is much fewer than the 23,000 fatalities recorded during a seven-day period in January.
However, public health experts are concerned about quickly changing variations and unvaccinated Americans.
Given the possible threat of the Delta variety, which is spreading quickly among younger people in the United Kingdom, President Joe Biden and other health experts are now advising young Americans to be vaccinated.
Experts warn that the Delta form is not only more transmissible but also more likely to cause serious sickness. It is especially harmful to people who have not been vaccinated or have just been partially immunized. mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations appear to be effective against the Delta variant based on current research.
Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, called the Delta variety as “the most infectious version we’ve encountered so far” and warned that it had “truly created havoc in the nation after nation” in an interview with ABC News’ David Muir on Wednesday.
Megan Bowes, a pulmonary and respiratory care unit manager at Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center in Florida, told ABC News, “Right now, what we find is that we still have people passing away from COVID, and those steps are challenging because, from a nursing standpoint, we feel like they could have been prevented with the vaccine.” “It makes it much more difficult to grasp our heads around individuals who are still dying away.”
Brownstein stated, “The vaccination is our ticket out of future catastrophic milestones.”