CHICAGO: More than 2,600 Americans are dying from Covid-19 each day, an alarming rate that has climbed by 30% in the past two weeks. Across the US, the coronavirus pandemic has now claimed more than 9,00,000 lives. Yet another, simultaneous reality of the pandemic offers reason for hope.
The number of new coronavirus infections is plummeting, falling by more than half since mid-January. Hospitalisations are also declining, a relief to stressed healthcare workers. All that has created a disorienting moment in the pandemic: Though deaths are still mounting, the threat from the virus is moving, for now, further into the background of daily life for many Americans.
The omicron surge has brought with it an especially potent and fast-moving wave of death across the US. The country’s per capita death rate still exceeds those of other wealthy nations, a reflection of widespread resistance to vaccines in the US. During the Omicron surge, hospital admissions in the US have been higher than in Western Europe. The pace of deaths across the country has accelerated throughout the fall and winter.
When the US reached 8,00,000 deaths in mid-December, the most recent1,00,000 deaths had occurred in less than11weeks. This time, the latest1,00,000 death — many from Omicron — have been reported in just over seven weeks.
That the 9,00,000-death milestone comes more than a year after vaccines were first authorised, said Dr Letitia Dzirasa, the Baltimore health commissioner. Federal data shows that the vast majority of deaths have been unvaccinated people. “As a public health professional, it is unbelievably sad, because I think so many of the deaths were likely preventable,” Dzirasa said. Deaths over the last seven weeks were reportedinlargenumbersacross the US, with especially high rates in the Southwest.
Much of the Midwest, Northeast and Southwest already were suffering large outbreaks fuelled by the Delta variant in December. It is possible that many of the most recent deaths in those regions were caused by Delta.
The US continues to average over 3,00,000 new coronavirus cases a day. That is down from 8,00,000 a day in the middle of Januarybut still above the peak levels seen in every previous surge. More than 1,20,000 people with the virus are hospitalised nationwide.
The number of new coronavirus infections is plummeting, falling by more than half since mid-January. Hospitalisations are also declining, a relief to stressed healthcare workers. All that has created a disorienting moment in the pandemic: Though deaths are still mounting, the threat from the virus is moving, for now, further into the background of daily life for many Americans.
The omicron surge has brought with it an especially potent and fast-moving wave of death across the US. The country’s per capita death rate still exceeds those of other wealthy nations, a reflection of widespread resistance to vaccines in the US. During the Omicron surge, hospital admissions in the US have been higher than in Western Europe. The pace of deaths across the country has accelerated throughout the fall and winter.
When the US reached 8,00,000 deaths in mid-December, the most recent1,00,000 deaths had occurred in less than11weeks. This time, the latest1,00,000 death — many from Omicron — have been reported in just over seven weeks.
That the 9,00,000-death milestone comes more than a year after vaccines were first authorised, said Dr Letitia Dzirasa, the Baltimore health commissioner. Federal data shows that the vast majority of deaths have been unvaccinated people. “As a public health professional, it is unbelievably sad, because I think so many of the deaths were likely preventable,” Dzirasa said. Deaths over the last seven weeks were reportedinlargenumbersacross the US, with especially high rates in the Southwest.
Much of the Midwest, Northeast and Southwest already were suffering large outbreaks fuelled by the Delta variant in December. It is possible that many of the most recent deaths in those regions were caused by Delta.
The US continues to average over 3,00,000 new coronavirus cases a day. That is down from 8,00,000 a day in the middle of Januarybut still above the peak levels seen in every previous surge. More than 1,20,000 people with the virus are hospitalised nationwide.
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