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A year since the rollout of vaccinations started, the official death toll due to COVID-19 has surpassed 800,000 in the United States, making it the country worst hit by the pandemic.
According to the tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University, around 450,000 of those deaths took place in 2021, despite vaccines being available since it was first authorized in December 2020.
According to reports, the vast majority of the deaths have been among the unvaccinated.
The actual death toll is being claimed to be high because cases were overlooked or ignored.
Paying respects to those who died, President Joe Biden continued to press people to get vaccinated.
“As we mark the tragic milestone of 800,000 American deaths due to COVID-19, we remember each person and the lives they lived, and we pray for the loved ones left behind,” Biden said in a statement.
“Today, more than 200 million Americans are fully vaccinated, and each day, more people are getting boosted than ever before. As we head into the winter and confront a new variant, we must resolve to keep fighting this virus together. This means getting vaccinated and getting your booster shot, and taking other prevention measures, such as masking,” the statement continued.
“To heal, we must remember. We must also act,” he said, adding, “As we head into the winter and confront a new variant, we must resolve to keep fighting this virus together.”
According to official data, the risk of dying from COVID-19 was 14 times higher among people who had not been fully vaccinated, compared to those who had.
The US, which only accounts for approximately 4 percent of the world’s population, has the highest reported toll of any country.
According to John Hopkins University data, the number of people who have died from COVID-19 is the same number of people die every year from heart disease or a stroke. The University of Washington predicts that there will be over 880,000 deaths by March 2022.
“Almost all the people dying are now dying preventable deaths,” said Dr. Chris Beyrer, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Guardian reports. “And that’s because they’re not immunized.”
