It is official the U.S. COVID-19 death toll reaches 900,000. Unfortunately, the numbers jumped because of the highly-contagious Omicron variant. In addition, this means that the new total is larger than the population of Indianapolis, San Francisco, or Charlotte, North Carolina.
Sadly, the latest COVID-19 death toll comes only thirteen months after the drive for the COVID-19 vaccination. “It is an astronomically high number. If you had told most Americans two years ago as this pandemic was getting going that 900,000 Americans would die over the next few years, I think most people would not have believed it,” said Dr. Ashish K. Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.
COVID-19 Percentages
President Biden continued to urge people to get the vaccination and boosted. “Two hundred and fifty million Americans have stepped up to protect themselves, their families, and their communities by getting at least one shot — and we have saved more than one million American lives as a result,” Biden said. About 36% of the U.S. population are unvaccinated, and the COVID-19 related-deaths are expected to hit one million by April.
New cases per day raised nearly half-million since mid-January. Fortunately, in the past two weeks, cases declined in 49 states. Furthermore, the number of COVID-19 hospital-related cases has dropped 15% since mid-January. However, medical officials still worry about the potential threat of worse variants even with the decline.
