COVID-19 Has Now Claimed More Than 3 Million People Worldwide

Early today, the COVID-19 global death toll eclipsed 3 million people. According to Johns Hopkins University, as of this writing, COVID-19 has claimed 3,007.957 lives out of more than 140 million cases (140,410,266). This represents a mortality rate of 2.1%.

The COVID-19 death toll hit the 1 million mark on September 28, 2020 and then hit the 2 million mark on January 15, 2021. It took 109 days to go from 1 million to 2 million deaths. It took 92 days to go from 2 million to 3 million deaths. I shudder to think how long it will takes to go from 3 million to 4 million deaths.

The United States represents the highest percentage of the global death toll at 18.8%. This does represent a drop from 20.5% in September and 19.5% in January. However, deaths in Brazil and India are increasing at an alarming rate. The presence of vaccines has not yet offset the spread in cases and with it hospitalizations and deaths.