On Sunday, the United States was on the verge of reaching 800,000 coronavirus deaths, as the country prepared for an increase in infections caused by greater time spent indoors owing to colder weather and the highly transmissible Omicron strain of the virus, Reuters reports.
This development implies that the death toll in the United States from this single virus already surpassed the number of inhabitants of the state of North Dakota.
Despite readily available immunizations, the country has lost more coronavirus deaths to the virus this year than in 2020, owing to the more infectious Delta form and people refusing to be immunized against COVID-19.
Over 450,000 individuals in the United States have died after getting coronavirus since the beginning of the year, accounting for 57% of fatalities from the infection since the epidemic began.
According to health authorities, the majority of the deaths this year occurred among unvaccinated people. Despite breakthroughs in COVID-19 patient care and novel potential treatments such as monoclonal antibodies, mortality has gone up.
According to Reuters data, it took 111 days for the number of coronavirus deaths in the United States to rise from 600,000 to 700,000 people. It will only take 73 days to claim the lives of the next 100,000 people.
Reuters has reported that other nations have lost much fewer people per capita in the last 11 months.
The Reuters analysis reports that the United States is currently ranking worst among the Group of Seven (G7) most affluent economies in terms of coronavirus per capita fatalities between January 1 and November 30.
The mortality rate in the United States was over three times that of neighboring Canada and eleven times that of Japan.
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