The United States has surpassed 1 million deaths from COVID-19, President Joe Biden said this morning.
Whatever the real number is, it didn’t need to be this high, health experts say.
“Some people made a decision not to get vaccinated, and sadly, they suffered the consequences of the wrong decision,” Amler said. “In my opinion, the right decision is to get vaccinated. We have an effective preventive measure. And if you don't take advantage of it, you could suffer the consequences.”
As recently as January, the U.S. was averaging more than 800,000 cases a day, while deaths topped 2,600 a day in February. Cameron was referring to the omicron subvariants that now account for 99.8% of new infections in the U.S. Health experts say the subvariants are more contagious than the earlier omicron but no more likely to cause severe illness.
But Cameron stressed that does not mean the U.S. has achieved “herd immunity” — when a large percentage of a population has been infected by a virus, giving it little opportunity to spread further. Herd immunity, he said, does not apply to COVID-19 because the virus continues to evolve, sidestepping immunity.
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