Posted on Nov 20, 2021, 8:58 p.m.Updated Nov 20, 2021, 9:03 PM
In the history of the United States, 2020 will be remembered as the most traumatic year, a period when the pandemic closed businesses, schools, borders and confined a large part of the population in the face of this virus. unknown. But the year 2021 surpassed its predecessor as the deadliest year.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University relayed by the American press, the number of deaths due to Covid-19 recorded in the country in 2021 has now exceeded that of 2020.
The total number of reported deaths thus passed 770,780 on Saturday, more than double the 385,343 Covid-19 related deaths recorded last year, according to the most recent data on death certificates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “.
Low vaccination rates in some communities
The spread of the highly contagious Delta variant and low vaccination rates in some communities were important factors, according to infectious disease experts cited by The Wall Street Journal. Weariness related to precautionary measures such as masks have all the more allowed the coronavirus to spread, largely among the unvaccinated, according to epidemiologists.
This symbolic threshold comes in a context of epidemic resumption in the United States, with an average of 85,000 new cases of Covid-19 daily (against around 70,000 at the end of October) and around 1,000 deaths per day. Hospitalizations are increasing again in regions like New England, the daily adds.
About 59% of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated, according to health officials, and some 17% have received boosters. U.S. health officials recently authorized a third dose of Pfizer or Moderna vaccine for all fully vaccinated adults at least six months ago.
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