Today, COVID-19 claimed its 2 millionth victim. As of this writing, according to Johns Hopkins University, COVID-19 has killed 2,006,611 people worldwide.
When COVID-19 claimed its 1 millionth life on September 28, 2020, it took just under 9 months to reach that ignominious total. We have now doubled that total in less than four months.
Indeed, the COVID-19 death toll has nearly doubled in the U.S. On the last Monday in September, COVID-19 had claimed more than 205,000 lives (205,069). Since then it has claimed another 186,000 lives for the current total of 391,624. In late September, the U.S. deaths from COVID-19 accounted 20.5% of the global total. Right now it is 19.5%. It has dropped by 1%. But it is hardly cause for celebration because the U.S. still has more COVID-19 deaths than Brazil and India combined. Within the next 48-72 hours, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 will exceed 400,000 and all the vaccines in the world cannot change that fact.
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