United States coronavirus cases has resulted in exceeding a tragic milestone with one million COVID deaths
AGN.News Team
May 12, 2022
WASHINGTON (AGN.News) – President Joe Biden said the country was marking “a tragic milestone” and each death was “an irreplaceable loss”.
On January 23, 2020, we reported from one case the number of coronavirus cases quickly went up to 600 confirmed cases and 25 deaths in China. The first confirmed case in the United States was a 35 year old man who just returned to Seattle from Wuhan, China on January 20, 2020. He survived, after 10 days in the hospital with pneumonia, coughs, fever, nausea and vomiting.
From that one case came another and then another as the cases climbed into the hundreds and reaching an average of just over 4,000 a day. Soon the death toll exceeded a thousand, then ten thousand. By January 31, 2020, we realized that this fast-spreading novel or new coronavirus was a “mild-mannered serial killer”. Then it became very clear that this coronavirus was killing 2% of those infected. Now, March 11, 2020, the new virus has a name: COVID-19.
Then it became abundantly clear that this COVID-19 virus was being transmitted (into the lungs) via “airborne transmission”. People who were getting the virus initially showed no symptoms, then within hours, high temperatures and more soon followed. By April 2020, the number of US deaths reached 2,500 everyday eight months before the first vaccine rolled out.
Now, after 26 months, the full impact of this COVID-19 virus on the United States has exceeded one million deaths and climbing (the highest in the world even though it may be higher in another country). President Biden will appeal to the global community to continue the fight against COVID in the second virtual summit today.
“As a nation, we must not grow numb to such sorrow,” Biden said in a statement Thursday, May 5th. “To heal, we must remember. We must remain vigilant against this pandemic and do everything we can to save as many lives as possible.” – President Joe Biden
The White House said President Biden will address the opening of the second global virtual summit Thursday morning with prerecorded remarks and will make the case that addressing COVID-19 “must remain an international priority.” The U.S. is co-hosting the summit along with Germany, Indonesia, Senegal and Belize.
President Biden has requested another $22.5 billion from Congress for critically needed money to continue the battle against this virus. “To beat the pandemic here, we need to beat it everywhere,” Biden said last September during the first global summit.
The BBC shared a separate analysis by the Peterson Center for Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation in April this year estimated that around a quarter of the US deaths – about 234,000 people – could have been prevented with vaccines. A study from the Rand Corporation credited the jabs with saving 140,000 lives in the US by May 2021 alone.
Where did these deaths occur?
The CDC says he highest death toll has been reported in California, where about 90,000 people have died.
California is followed closely by Texas (about 86,000), Florida (about 74,000) and New York (about 68,000).
Per capita, CDC data shows that Mississippi has suffered about 418 deaths per 100,000 residents, followed by Arizona (414), Alabama (399) and West Virginia (384).
The per capita death rate from COVID-19 in these states far surpasses the average US national rate of about 300 per 100,000.
“The dangerous surges, where our hospitals were full and new deaths were overwhelming, have all come on the heels of new variants,” Dr Mark Cameron, an associate professor in the department of population and quantitative health sciences at Case Western University in Ohio, told the BBC.
“You can’t necessarily simplify this to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Everyone knows someone who had the whole vaccination regimen and still got very sick,” Dr Cameron added. “But the data is clear, the risk of Covid-19 and death is higher in the unvaccinated.”
It becomes painfully clear that this global pandemic is not over. With new variants like Omicron and its emerging variants quickly gaining momentum globally. In the US, COVID deaths has touched almost everyone.
The rise in cases of Omicron BA.2 infections in the United States are being reported everyday. The FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at CDC.gov and covid.gov provides information on many ways to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 with its many variants.
“To heal, we must remember. We must remain vigilant against this pandemic and do everything we can to save as many lives as possible.” – President Joe Biden
The CDC provides extensive COVID-19 local Guidance and mitigation information on subjects like self-testing, travel, quarantine & isolation, as well as people with certain medical conditions and much more online: here.
There are many resources available via the Centers for Disease Control website to answer many questions individuals and families are seeking answers at cdc.gov. SAVE A LIFE, GET VACCINATED!
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Everyone is being urged by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC.gov) to get vaccinated, wear masks, practice social distancing, and wash hands as a way to cut down on the transmission rate.
For more information on local responses to the novel coronavirus also called … COVID-19, contact your local healthcare provider, visit coronavirus.gov or visit cdc.gov for the United States response to the coronavirus.
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