Washington: United States, the country that was hit by a Pandemic Coronavirus, passed 800,000 Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday, a tracker managed by Johns Hopkins University showed.
That number is greater than the population of several states, including North Dakota and Alaska.
About 450,000 deaths occurred in 2021, despite a very effective vaccine which was first legalized in December 2020 and widely available by Springtim.
Most deaths have been among those who are not vaccinated.
“When we mark a tragic milestone from 800,000 American deaths because Covid-19, we remember everyone and life they live, and we pray that loved ones are left behind,” President Joe Biden said in a statement.
“To recover, we must remember.
We also have to act,” he said.
“When we go to winter and face a new variant, we must decide to continue to fight this virus together.” According to official data, the risk of death from Covid-19 is 14 times higher among people who have not fully vaccinated, compared to those who have, in September, the last month was analyzed.
Vaccination was taken during the fourth wave of the disease, driven by the Delta variant, and more than 60 percent of the 332 million people in the country are now fully vaccinated – even though the United States is still lagging behind other rich countries.
This country is now a fifth wave, with the center of the earthquake in a cooler northern state, because people gather more often in the room.
Omicron, the latest variant of concerns that have caused alarms around the world because they were first reported in South Africa at the end of November, now accounted for about three percent of the US case, but what is expected to rise quickly, as has been seen in other countries.
Even if the initial data shows a variant causing a lighter disease in most people being confirmed, increased transmission and the ability to overcome the previous immunity can negate this advantage, by infecting more people.
Health Authority urged everyone more than 16 to get a booster shot to restore immunity to the level comparable to two doses against the previous strain.
Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, who led the House of Representatives and their respective Senates, as well as the leader of the Republic of Kevin McCarthy and other members of Congress, held a moment of silence on the steps of the Capitol Building Tuesday night.
“Today …
we will remember that 800,000 loved ones do not make it so far: Father or grandfather who is lost, mother or grandmother, a friend, a face that is familiar with the neighborhood,” Schumer said in a statement.
“We all know someone who is taken this disease.”