Posted on 03/07/22
| News Source: NY Post
More than 6 million people across the globe have died from COVID-19 — with the US closing in on 1,000,000 deaths alone, sobering data shows.
Some 6,000,864 people worldwide have died from the virus as of early Monday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. In the United States, where 65% of people are fully vaccinated, 958,621 deaths and more than 79 million confirmed cases have been tallied, according to the data.
But as hospitalizations and deaths continue to significantly slow, a growing number of US states are dropping mask and vaccine mandates, including in New York City public classrooms beginning on Monday.
Face mask rules are also set to be relaxed this week in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont.
The first million deaths from the pandemic — now in its third year — occurred over just seven months in 2020.
Global deaths also likely crossed the 6 million threshold some time ago due to an undercount associated with shoddy record-keeping in some parts of the world.
One analysis by a team at The Economist estimates that as many as 23.8 million people have died globally from the virus.