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In the United States more than 675, 000 people have died from the coronavirus , according to a New York Times count , a figure few experts had anticipated months ago when vaccines were widely available to the entire American population.
The overwhelming majority of Americans who have died in recent months, a period in which the country has offered wide access to vaccines, they were not vaccinated .
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , in the United States there are 1, 900 deaths daily average in the last week.
According to that record, d e the last 100, 000 Deceased by Covid – 19 in the country, only 2, 900 corresponded to vaccinated people.
The United States has had one of the Recent highest death rates of any country with an ample supply of vaccines.
The alarming new increase in deaths this summer means that the pandemic has become the deadliest in the history of the United States, surpassing the number of victims that occurred during the influenza of 1918 and 1919 , which killed some 675, 000 persons.
“This Delta wave cuts through the unvaccinated,” said Howard Markel, histo University of Michigan medical journal to the New York Times.
“The deaths that have followed the wide availability of vaccines were absolutely unnecessary.”
People who died in the last three and a half months were concentrated in the South , a region that has lagged behind in vaccinations.
The Most deaths were recorded in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
Vaccines have been shown to be highly effective in preventing serious illness and death, and a CDC study published in September found that after Delta became the dominant variant,
unvaccinated people had 10 times more likely to die from the virus than vaccinated .
Those who died were also younger: in August, all age groups under 55 years recorded their highest death toll.
Approximately the 40% of the 100, 000 Most recent people who died from the virus had less than 65 years, a higher proportion than at any other point in the pandemic.
The pace of death sped up, then slowed down, then sped up again for the last 18 months as the virus spread across the United States in waves.
The 100, 000 Most recent deaths occurred over more than three months, a considerably slower rate than when the pandemic peaked last winter.
During that previous increase, they only passed 34 days between death number 400, 000 and death number 500, 000.
Tired doctors and nurses expressed frustration that many of the patients whose lives they were now fighting to save had rejected vaccines.
People from 65 years or more, which are among the most vulnerable to e serious virus diseases have the highest vaccination rate of all age groups with 80% fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
Vaccination rates are lower for people from 30 years, and the number of people in that age group who died from the virus in August was almost double the number of people who died during January.
More than 3, 800 people from 40 years or less died from COVID – 19 in August, compared to 2, 700 in January.
“If you look back when the virus first started, the mantra was, this seems to be a disease that affects older people more se vera, and fortunately younger people don’t seem to get that sick, ”he said. “Younger people now feel that this is a virus that will not affect them.”
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