The grim milestone of 800,000 deaths means the Covid toll now exceeds the entire population of the US state of North Dakota
The United States has reached 800,000 coronavirus-related death and cases topped 50 million, as the nation braces for a potential surge in infections due to more time spent indoors with colder weather and the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the virus.
Since the start of the year, over 450,000 people in the United States have died after contracting Covid-19, or 57 percent of all US deaths from the illness since the pandemic started.Deaths have increased despite advances in caring for Covid patients and new treatment options such as monoclonal antibodies.
The death rate in the United States was more than three times higher than in neighboring Canada and 11 times more than Japan. When compared with the European Union, the United States has 1.3 times the per capita deaths reported in the last 11 months than the entire bloc.The United States has the highest number of reported total Covid-19 deaths in the world, followed by Brazil and India, according to the Reuters tally.
Scientists are still evaluating the impact of the new Omicron variant and whether vaccines could provide adequate protection against it.Of the 10 states that reported the most deaths per capita in the last 11 months, eight were from the country's south – Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mississippi, South Carolina and West Virginia, according to the Reuters analysis
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