Grim 800k Covid Milestone As Winter Sets In.
Americans are preparing for the Holidays and another milestone sets in as 800k people have passed away due to Covid. (AP News)
“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.
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.
The United States has the highest reported toll of any country. The U.S. 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 in China two years ago.”
Americans are increasingly eschewing Covid-19 prevention protocols in an effort to return to a sense of normalcy. Furthermore, various parts of the nation continue to remain vaccine resistant which is causing a catastrophe in areas least able to handle virus surges. Unfortunately, there is little that can be done to convince anti-vaxxers to get the jab even as they see dear friends and close family members succumb to Covid. It could be a long difficult Winter.
