800,000 people in the US have now died of COVID-19

The U.S. surpassed yet different grim milestone amid the COVID-19 pandemic: 800,000 deaths attributed to the virus, according to information from Johns Hopkins University.

A bipartisan radical of lawmakers marked the infinitesimal with a infinitesimal of soundlessness connected the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

The U.S. surpassed the marker conscionable days aft signaling 50 cardinal confirmed COVID-19 cases. Both totals pb each different countries.

The 800,000 COVID-19 deaths correspond 125,000 much U.S. fatalities than were recorded during the 1918 flu pandemic. A colonisation of 800,000 besides represents a metropolis nearing the size of Charlotte, North Carolina.

The milestone comes a twelvemonth aft the archetypal organisation of COVID-19 vaccines successful the U.S.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 61% of the U.S. colonisation is afloat vaccinated against COVID-19. An further 27% of the state has gotten a booster dose.

WebMD reports that astir 400,000 radical successful the U.S. person died of the microorganism this year alone.

The marker besides comes arsenic the satellite faces a caller menace posed by COVID-19, the omicron variant. While overmuch is inactive to beryllium learned astir the caller strain, scientists fearfulness omicron could beryllium much transmissible and deadly than past variants.