The country had crossed the threshold of 800,000 deaths in mid-December, only a month and a half ago.
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The United States exceeded, on Friday February 4, the 900,000 deaths from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to the report of Johns-Hopkins University. The country had crossed the threshold of 800,000 deaths in mid-December, only a month and a half ago. Since then, the United States has been confronted with the wave linked to the Omicron variant, which has caused record levels of contamination. The number of cases is now down, but the number of daily deaths continues to grow, averaging 2,400 deaths per day currently, according to data from health authorities.
And the number of hospitalizations “remains high, pushing our care capacities and our health personnel in certain regions to their limits”, said Wednesday, at a press conference, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), the main federal health agency. Deaths generally occur a few weeks later than contamination, explaining this discrepancy between the curve of cases and that of deaths. “Today our country takes another tragic step”responded President Joe Biden in a statement, paying tribute to the 900,000 dead Americans and their families. “We now have more tools than ever to save lives and fight this virus”he added, once again urging his compatriots to get vaccinated or receive their booster dose.