Secretary-General António Guterres said in a written statement. 'œThis devastating milestone reminds us that we are failing much of the world,' U.N. and others are already dispensing booster shots at a time when millions across Africa haven't received a single dose, though the rich countries are also shipping hundreds of millions of shots to the rest of the world.Īfrica remains the world's least vaccinated region, with just 5% of the population of 1.3 billion people fully covered. Wealth has also played a role in the global vaccination drive, with rich countries accused of locking up supplies. 'œWhen we get out our microscopes, we see that within countries, the most vulnerable have suffered most,' Ko said.
In the U.S., for example, COVID-19 has taken an outsize toll on Black and Hispanic people, who are more likely than white people to live in poverty and have less access to health care. Within each wealthy country, when deaths and infections are mapped, poorer neighborhoods are hit hardest. But the pattern that is seen on the grand scale, when nations are compared, is different when examined at closer range. The seeming disconnect between wealth and health is a paradox that disease experts will be pondering for years. or Britain, though there is uncertainty around its figures. India, despite its terrifying delta surge that peaked in early May, now has a much lower reported daily death rate than wealthier Russia, the U.S. Poorer countries tend to have larger shares of children, teens and young adults, who are less likely to fall seriously ill from the coronavirus. Wealthier nations with longer life expectancies have larger proportions of older people, cancer survivors and nursing home residents, all of whom are especially vulnerable to COVID-19, El-Sadr noted. Wafaa El-Sadr, director of ICAP, a global health center at Columbia University. 'œWhat's uniquely different about this pandemic is it hit hardest the high-resource countries,' said Dr. In Ukraine, only 17% of the adult population is fully vaccinated in Armenia, only 7%. Now, the virus is pummeling Russia, Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe, especially where rumors, misinformation and distrust in government have hobbled vaccination efforts. Hot spots have shifted over the 22 months since the outbreak began, turning different places on the world map red. The staggering figure is almost certainly an undercount because of limited testing and people dying at home without medical attention, especially in poor parts of the world, such as India.
Globally, COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and stroke. It rivals the number of people killed in battles among nations since 1950, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo. The death toll, as tallied by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the populations of Los Angeles and San Francisco combined. 'œWhat do we have to do to protect ourselves so we don't get to another 5 million?' Albert Ko, an infectious disease specialist at the Yale School of Public Health. 'œThis is a defining moment in our lifetime,' said Dr.
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