{"id":147405,"date":"2021-12-15T01:10:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T01:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=147405"},"modified":"2021-12-15T01:10:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T01:10:26","slug":"u-s-covid-19-death-toll-hits-800000-a-year-into-vaccine-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/u-s-covid-19-death-toll-hits-800000-a-year-into-vaccine-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Covid-19 death toll hits 800,000, a year into vaccine drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The U.S. death toll from Covid-19 topped 800,000 on Tuesday, a once-unimaginable figure seen as doubly tragic, given that more than 200,000 of those lives were lost after the vaccine became available practically for the asking last spring.<\/li>\n<li>The United States has the highest reported toll of any country. The U.S. accounts for approximately 4% of the world\u2019s population but about 15% of the 5.3 million known deaths from the coronavirus.<\/li>\n<li>Health experts lament that many of the deaths in the United States were especially heartbreaking because they were preventable by way of the vaccine, which became available in mid-December a year ago and was thrown open to all adults by mid-April of this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The U.S. death toll from Covid-19 topped 800,000 on Tuesday, a once-unimaginable figure seen as doubly tragic, given that more than 200,000 of those lives were lost after the vaccine became available practically for the asking last spring.<\/p>\n<p>The number of deaths, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, 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.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has the highest reported toll of any country. The U.S. accounts for approximately 4% of the world\u2019s population but about 15% of the 5.3 million known deaths from the coronavirus since the outbreak began in China two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The true death toll in the U.S. and around the world is believed to significantly higher because of cases that were overlooked or concealed.<\/p>\n<p>A closely watched forecasting model from the University of Washington projects a total of over 880,000 reported deaths in the U.S. by March 1.<\/p>\n<p>Health experts lament that many of the deaths in the United States were especially heartbreaking because they were preventable by way of the vaccine, which became available in mid-December a year ago and was thrown open to all adults by mid-April of this year.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost all the people dying are now dying preventable deaths,\u201d said Dr. Chris Beyrer, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. \u201cAnd that\u2019s because they\u2019re not immunized. And you know that, God, it\u2019s a terrible tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the vaccine was first rolled out, the country\u2019s death toll stood at about 300,000. It hit 600,000 in mid-June and 700,000 on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<h2>CNBC Health &amp; Science <\/h2>\n<p>Read CNBC&#x27;s latest global coverage of the Covid pandemic:<\/p>\n<p>Why a Covid booster dose is crucial against the omicron variant<\/p>\n<p>Mainland China reports its first omicron Covid case<\/p>\n<p>California imposes monthlong mask mandate for indoor public places regardless of vaccination status<\/p>\n<p>CDC strongly encourages Pfizer Covid booster shots for 16- and 17-year-olds amid omicron fears<\/p>\n<p>NY state confirms 20 omicron cases, 13 in NYC as variant spreads across state, Gov. Hochul says<\/p>\n<p>Rapid infection rate of omicron Covid variant is causing concern, as UK braces for 1 million cases<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. crossed the latest threshold with cases and hospitalizations on the rise again in a spike driven by the highly contagious delta variant, which arrived in the first half of 2021 and now accounts for practically all infections. Now the omicron variant is gaining a foothold in the country, though scientists are not sure how dangerous it is.<\/p>\n<p>Beyrer recalled that in March or April 2020, one of the worst-case scenarios projected upwards of 240,000 American deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I saw that number, and I thought that is incredible \u2014 240,000 American deaths?\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re now past three times that number.\u201d He added: \u201cAnd I think it\u2019s fair to say that we\u2019re still not out of the woods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/15\/us-covid-19-death-toll-hits-800000-a-year-into-vaccine-drive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. death toll from Covid-19 topped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23055],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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