The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 7 million deaths globally. Despite a recent slowdown in fatalities, the virus continues to claim lives. The WHO highlights the significant impact of the pandemic on global health, emphasizing the importance of continued vigilance and vaccination efforts.
COVID-19 deaths have slowed significantly but continue adding to a tally of more than 7 million deaths from the virus in the nearly five years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic. The world was transformed by the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 . Business as usual ground to a halt when the WHO declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, about four months after the virus was first detected in Wuhan, China.
Since the pandemic was affirmed, the WHO reports that around 777 million people have been infected by the virus worldwide, giving the illness an overall worldwide mortality rate of a little less than 1 percent—much higher than common ailments like the flu.In the United States, at least 103 million COVID-19 cases have been reported since the pandemic began. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that at least 1.21 million people have officially died of the illness in the U.S., although the actual number of deaths could be higher.While the WHO's worldwide confirmed death toll is 7,077,725 through December 1, the organization estimates that there were a massive 14.9 million 'excess deaths' associated with the virus in 2020 and 2021 alone. The figure includes both confirmed COVID-19 deaths and indirect ones caused by 'the pandemic's impact on health systems and society.'A meta-analysis of seven COVID-19 studies, published by medical journal Cureus in August 2023, found that people who are unvaccinated are 2.46 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than those who are vaccinated.In addition to deaths, COVID-19 has seriously harmed the long-term health of many of those infected, due to complications like 'long COVID' and the COVID-associated children's inflammatory syndrome MIS-C.By the end of 2020, the CDC counted 385,676 confirmed U.S. deaths caused by the virus
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