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Omicron ups US Covid death toll to 9 lakh in 2 months
Updated On: 06 February, 2022 07:56 AM IST | US | Agencies
Even though the brutal wave is rapidly easing its grip, and new cases of Covid-19 in the US are falling in 49 of the 50 states, death toll has hit 9, 00,000
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A woman self-tests for Covid-19 at a No Cost Covid-19 drive-through testing site in California. Pic/AP
Propelled in part by the wildly contagious Omicron variant, the US death toll from Covid-19 hit 9,00,000 in less than two months. The two-year total, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Indianapolis, San Francisco, or Charlotte, North Carolina. The milestone comes more than 13 months into a vaccination drive that has been beset by misinformation and political and legal strife, though the shots have proved safe and highly effective at preventing serious illness and death.
“If you had told most Americans two years ago as this pandemic was getting going that 900,000 Americans would die over the next few years, I think most people would not have believed it,” said Dr Ashish K. Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. He lamented that most of the deaths happened after the vaccine gained authorisation. “We got the medical science right. We failed on the social science. We failed on how to help people get vaccinated, to combat disinformation, to not politicise this,” Jha said.
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