United States: The United States of America has recently crossed over 1 million COVID-19 deaths, as per the reports.
The one million mark is a reminder of the increase in the cases and the loss created by the pandemic, even as the threat posed by the infection wanes in the minds of most individuals. It represents around one death for every 327 Americans or over the whole population of Seattle or San Francisco.
The World Health Organization-WHO has made an announcement that the COVID-19, a global pandemic, on March 11, 2020. The infection has claimed 36 lives in the United States.
Moreover, in the months that followed, the most transmissible virus spread like wildfire, finding fertile ground in densely occupied urban areas, including New York City, as well as then reaching every corner of the nation.
By June 2020, the United States of America’s death toll had passed the maximum number of the nation’s military deaths in World War One. It would also exceed the people from US army losses of War World Two by January 2021, when over 405,000 deaths were reported.
Along with this, the virus has left few places on Earth where it has not been reached yet, with 6.7 million confirmed deaths globally. The actual toll, including those who have died due to COVID-19 infection and those who have lost their lives as an accidental result of the outbreak, was likely near 15 million, the WHO mentioned in the statement.
Some of the images that have been associated with COVID death are forever burned in the collective mind of Americans, including refrigerated trucks stationed outside health care centres overflowing with the dead; intubated infected people in sealed-off intensive care units; exhausted doctors as well as nurses who battled through every wave of the infection.
