United States Passes 800,000 COVID-19-Related Deaths

The United States now has passed 800,000 COVID-19-related deaths. Our country has the highest number in the world.

Ever since the Coronavirus struck the world in 2019, all hell has reigned over in the form of millions being out of their jobs, families going hungry and or loved ones being lost to the sometimes-deadly disease. More than 800,000 people in the U.S. have died from the virus, and since the COVID-19 vaccine became available, over 200,000 have passed away.

The Guardian reports that the U.S. represents 4 percent of the world’s population. Fifteen percent of the 5.3 million people have reportedly died came from the outbreak in China two years ago. Since then, the Coronavirus has shifted and mutated, creating even stronger variants in Beta, Gamma, Delta, Lambda and now Omicron.

Omicron, which is reportedly stronger than the others and harder to evade, has already been detected in 77 countries.

According to John Hopkins University data, the number of people who have died from COVID-19 is the same amount of people who die every year from heart disease or a stroke. The University of Washington predicts that there will be over 880,000 deaths by March 2022. The Guardian reports that a little over 60 percent of the U.S. population is vaccinated.

“Almost all the people dying are now dying preventable deaths,” said Dr. Chris Beyrer, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Guardian reports. “And that’s because they’re not immunized.”