U.S. COVID deaths top 900,000 in the highly vaccinated country.
QUICK FACTS:
- More than 900,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University, Forbes reports.
- The death toll stood at 900,334 as of Friday afternoon, according to Johns Hopkins, coronavirus fatalities still rising since early January.
- The seven-day rolling average of coronavirus deaths was at 2,962 Thursday, up 85% from about five weeks ago, according to Forbes.
- However, the U.S. population is more than 76% vaccinated, over 64% being “fully” vaccinated, according to Google data, and the CDC says COVID-19 vaccines “are effective at preventing infection, serious illness, and death,” raising questions about the gene therapy drug’s efficacy.
HIGHLY VACCINATED U.S. HOLDS TOP SPOT FOR COVID INFECTIONS & DEATHS:
- With a total of 76.2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, the U.S. has both the most infections and the most deaths of any country, Forbes reports.
- By comparison, African populations have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the world, but the Omicron wave is quickly subsiding across the continent, according to The Washington Post.
BACKGROUND:
- American Faith recently reported how a United States District Court for the northern district of Texas, Fort Worth division has ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to release tens of thousands of pages of Pfizer’s licensing data for its COVID-19 gene therapy drug, rejecting the FDA’s request to release only 500 pages per month, a process that would have taken more than 50 years to complete.
- The FDA must release 10,000 pages per month for the first two months.
