As the death toll from COVID-19 in the United States passed 1 million on Monday, health officials in New York warned of an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations and for all indoor public places to re-face masks. Mandate issued.
Eric Feigl-Ding, epidemiologist and health economist, shared on Twitter on Tuesday that, “NYC is waking up – its #Covid-19 hospitals are on the rise and now New York City issues mask advisories for all indoor public spaces, now warns that COVID-19 The alert level is approaching ‘high’.
Meanwhile, the death toll from COVID-19 in the US passed 1 million on Monday, a once unimaginable figure that only indicates hordes of loved ones and friends trembling with grief and despair.
The confirmed death toll is equivalent to the 9/11 attacks daily for 336 days. This is roughly equal to how many Americans died in the Civil War and World War II combined. It’s like Boston and Pittsburgh have been wiped out.
Jennifer Nuzzo, who leads a new epidemiology center at Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island, said, “It’s hard to imagine robbing a million people from this earth. It’s still happening and we want it to happen.” giving.”
Most of the deaths occurred in urban areas, but in rural areas – where there was opposition to masks and vaccination Has a tendency to move higher – at times there is a heavy price to pay.
Deaths under 2 1/2 years old in an outbreak are based on death certificate data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. But the actual number of people who have lost their lives directly or indirectly to COVID-19 as a result of disruptions in the health care system in the world’s richest country is believed to be much higher.
The US has the most reported Covid-19 deaths of any country, although health experts have long suspected that the actual number of deaths in places like India, Brazil and Russia is higher than official figures.
The milestone comes more than three months after the US reached 900,000 dead. The pace has slowed since the winter surge due to the Omicron variant.
The US is seeing an average of about 300 Covid-19 deaths per day, compared to a peak of about 3,400 per day in January 2021. New cases are on the rise again, climbing by an average of more than 60% over the past two weeks to nearly 86,000. One day – still well below the all-time high of more than 800,000, when the O’Microon version was raging during the winter.
(with inputs from agencies)