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For: The Opinion
Thursday, November 14
The United States marks another terrible milestone: more than 800,000 deaths from Covid-19
The death toll from Covid – 19 in the United States now exceeded 1200, 000, just one year after the start of the vaccination campaign at the national level and in The middle of the arrival of the new Omicron variant, according to information from Johns Hopkins University.
The university indicated that deaths caused by the coronavirus are approximately equal to the population of Atlanta and St. Louis combined, or Minneapolis and Cleveland, and is close to the number of Americans who die each year from heart disease or stroke, The Associated Press reported.
According to analysts, the actual number of deaths in the United States and worldwide is significantly higher due to cases that were overlooked or hidden.
BREAKING: The US death toll from COVID – 19 has topped 800, 000. It’s a once-unimaginable figure seen as doubly tragic, given that more than 200 , 000 of those lives were lost after vaccines became available. https://t.co/vGLev3HIyM
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 14, 2021
The United States has the highest number of victims on record of any country. The US represents approximately 4% of the world’s population, but approximately the 15% of 5, 300, 000 millions of known deaths due to coronavirus since the outbreak began in China two years ago.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 450 thousand people in the country have died after contracting Covid – 19, that is, the 57% of all U.S. deaths from disease since the pandemic began.
Compared to the European Union, the United States has 1.3 times more deaths per capita
The United States is the country with the highest number of deaths by covid – 19 reported in the world , followed by Brazil and India. With only 4% of the world’s population, the country represents around 14% of all Covid deaths – 19 notified and the 19% of cases worldwide.
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