Health Editor’s Note: The U.S. has an intensified vaccination program when compared to other countries of the world. For instance, Brazil has had to deal with President Bolsonaro who is of the Trump ilk as he also downplayed COVID-19 and the citizens of Brazil continue to pay the unacceptable price of mounting deaths. Brazil’s daily coronavirus deaths account for one quarter of the world’s total numbers of dead.
With the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine placed on hold, the world is losing an opportunity to vaccinate with only one dose required. This will take a heavy toll on the populations that are harder to vaccinate, the homeless, transient, etc., because the one shot vaccine was a very efficient way to deliver the vaccine. Also, poorer countries have been using vaccines made by Russia and China and these vaccines may offer less protection than those being used in richer portions of the world.
With continuing COVID-19 infections with numbers running so high, there is an ever increasing chance of more variants to develop. The longer the virus continues to live, the more chances it will mutate into other forms of the virus. Efficient vaccinations programs are urgently needed globally and I call on the U.S. to assist these countries in attaining vaccines…..Carol
Worldwide COVID-19 death toll tops a staggering 3 million
by David Biller, Maria Cheng, Joshua Goodman/apnews
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France.
The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; or metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal. It is bigger than Chicago (2.7 million) and equivalent to Philadelphia and Dallas combined.
And the true number is believed to be significantly higher because of possible government concealment and the many cases overlooked in the early stages of the outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019.
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator.
She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues.
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Pat Kittle, The percentage of 3 million out of 7.9 billion is .04%. No matter how small that percentage appears to be…that is 3 million people who would have not been dead if it has not been for this COVID-19 pandemic. Let’s put it another way, if you were included in the 3 million, it would make a vast difference to you…..right? This is a monster pandemic…..
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