‘US death toll from Covid-19 surpasses 900,000’ – Times of India

WASHINGTON: The US death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic surpassed 900,000 on Friday, according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker.
The toll had hit 800,000 dead in mid-December, just a month and a half ago.
New cases linked to the Omicron variant are falling, but daily deaths are still rising, with an average of 2,400 now, according to government figures.
“Hospitalizations remain high, stretching our healthcare capacity and workforce to its limits in some areas of the country,” said Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Covid deaths usually occur a few weeks after patients get the virus, which explains why the spike in deaths occurs later than the spike in new cases.
Americans continue to die from Covid in large numbers because only 64 per cent of the population is fully immunized, despite highly effective vaccines being widely available.
The United States has the most Covid deaths in absolute terms, ahead of Brazil and India, according to government figures.
The Covid pandemic has killed at least 5.7 million people worldwide since it began in December 2019, according to an AFP tally published on Friday.
But the World Health Organization says the actual toll could be two to three times higher.

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